A New Republic

A History of the United States in the Twentieth Century

By: John Lukacs

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Paperback | 30 October 2004 | Edition Number 1

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An eminent historian offers his views on American democracy

In A New Republic, one of America’s most respected historians offers a major statement on the nature of our political system and a critical look at the underpinnings of our society. American democracy, says John Lukacs, has been transformed from an exercise in individual freedom and opportunity to a bureaucratic system created by and for the dominance of special groups. His book, first published in 1984 as Outgrowing Democracy, is now reissued with a new introduction, in which Lukacs explains his methodology, and a new final chapter, which sums up Lukacs’s thoughts on American democracy today.

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“A rich, subtle, and often ingenious argument . . . an eloquent, provocative, but disturbing book.”—Edwin M. Yoder, Jr., Washington Post Book World

“Mr. Lukacs is an original and subtle historian, and [this book] is an engaging intellectual surprise party. . . . I was continuously enchanted by the play of his ideas—by the sharpness of his distinctions and the acuteness of his descriptions.”—Naomi Bliven, New Yorker

“It has been a long time since Americans were offered such a provocative interpretation of their historical predicament. . . . We would be foolish not to examine it closely.”—Laurence Tool, Society

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"Mr. Lukacs is an original and subtle historian, and [this book] is an engaging intellectual surprise party." - Naomi Bliven, New Yorker"

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Non-Fiction History Earliest Times to Present Day 20th Century History from 1900 to 2000 Regional & National History History of the Americas

The second century	p. 3
Tocqueville reversed	p. 59
The automobile century : the material development of American life	p. 91
The leap across the sea : the development of an American nation	p. 123
The bourgeois interlude : the half-century when American civilization was urban and urbane	p. 159
The two empires : the passing of the Anglo-American age in the history of the world	p. 201
The elective monarchy : the degeneration of popular democracy to a publicity contest	p. 256
Mutations of minds and morals : the transformations of American thinking	p. 289
Inheritances and prospects : the passage from a democratic order to a bureaucratic state	p. 368
The third century : dictatress of the world	p. 407
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