The House of Truth : A Washington Political Salon and the Foundations of American Liberalism.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (825 pages)
Cover -- The House of Truth -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Expanding Horizons -- 2. 1727 Nineteenth Street -- 3. The Call of the Moose -- 4. The Center of the Universe -- 5. Buddha -- 6. The Soldier's Faith -- 7. Temperamentally Unfit -- 8. Our Founder -- 9. Fighting Valentine's Fight -- 10. The House at War -- 11. One-Man War -- 12. Uniting the Labor Army -- 13. The Inquiry -- 14. The Wonderful One -- 15. The H/T Cannot Be Re-constituted" -- 16. Harvard's Dangerous Men -- 17. Touched with Fire -- 18. Protestant of Nordic Stock -- 19. We Live by Symbols -- 20. The 1924 Election and the Basic Issues of Liberalism -- 21. Eloquence May Set Fire to Reason -- 22. A Fly on an Elephant -- 23. No Ordinary Case -- 24. This World Cares More for Red Than for Black -- 25. A Damn Poor Psychologist -- 26. The Happy Warrior -- 27. Freedom for the Thought That We Hate -- 28. America's Shrine for Political Democracy -- 29. The Best Men -- 30. A Very Great Beginning -- 31. The Hard Case Has Melted -- Epilogue -- Appendix -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index.
The story of a how the inhabitants of a modest row house in the Washington neighborhood of Dupont Circle in the early years of the 20th century helped to shape the future of American liberalism.