Imagining Deliberative Democracy in the Early American Republic
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alexis de tocqueville
american republic
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bunker hill
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civic engagement
constitution
creativity
daniel webster
david crockett
deliberation
democracy
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fiction
governing
government
historical
history
james fenimore cooper
jfk
john dewey
literary
literature
martin luther king jr
nonfiction
novel
persuasive speech
poetry
political science
politics
president kennedy
protest
republicanism
self governance
united states of america
usa
walt whitman
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- ISBN 9780226311296
- Weight: 539g
- Dimensions: 16 x 23mm
- Publication Date: 30 May 2011
- Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Deliberation, in recent years, has emerged as a form of civic engagement worth reclaiming. In this persuasive book, Sandra M. Gustafson combines historical literary analysis and political theory in order to demonstrate that current democratic practices of deliberation are rooted in the civic rhetoric that flourished in the early American republic. Though the US Constitution made deliberation central to republican self-governance, the ethical emphasis on group deliberation often conflicted with the rhetorical focus on persuasive speech. From Alexis de Tocqueville's ideas about the deliberative basis of American democracy through the works of Walt Whitman, John Dewey, John F. Kennedy, and Martin Luther King Jr., Gustafson shows how writers and speakers have made the aesthetic and political possibilities of deliberation central to their autobiographies, manifestos, novels, and orations.
Examining seven key writers from the early American republic - including James Fenimore Cooper, David Crockett, and Daniel Webster - whose works of deliberative imagination explored the intersections of style and democratic substance, Gustafson offers a mode of historical and textual analysis that displays the wide range of resources imaginative language can contribute to political life.
Sandra M. Gustafson is associate professor of English at the University of Notre Dame. She is the author of Eloquence Is Power: Oratory and Performance in Early America.
