Genres: Books Biographies & Memoirs

1929–1941

The Philosophy of the Declaration in the Nineteenth Century

Source: Carl L. Becker, The Declaration of Independence: A Study in the History of Political Ideas (New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1922), 273–79, available at The Online Library of Liberty: https://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/becker-the-declaration-of-independence-a-study-on-the-history-of-political-ideas.

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1929–1941

The Crisis in Liberalism

Source: John Dewey, Liberalism and Social Action (New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1935), 37–61, available online at https://archive.org/details/dewey_liberalism/page/n4/mode/2up. We have omitted the author’s footnotes. . . . . The

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1917–1929

Plunkitt of Tammany Hall

Chapter 1: Honest Graft and Dishonest Graft EVERYBODY is talkin’ these days about Tammany men growin’ rich on graft, but nobody thinks of drawin’ the distinction between honest graft and

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1825–1860

Autobiography

. . . . For the present it needs only to be stated that in the ranks of one or the other of these parties were arrayed almost all the

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1877–1917

Politics and Administration

Source: Frank Johnson Goodnow, Politics and Administration: A Study in Government (New York: Macmillan, 1900). Chapter 1: Politics and Administration . . . [P]olitical functions group themselves naturally under two

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1917–1929

Your Congress

Source: Your Congress: An Interpretation of the Political and Parliamentary Influences that Dominate Law Making in America (National Voters League: Washington, D.C., 1915), PG #S. Chapter II: Modern Politics—An Interpretation

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