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The House of Truth : A Washington Political Salon and the Foundations of American Liberalism.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2017Copyright date: ©2017Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (825 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780190261993
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The House of TruthDDC classification:
  • 975.3/04
LOC classification:
  • F199.S67 2017
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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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.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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