Gustafson, Sandra M.
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2011.
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Notes:

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-260) and index.
• Deliberation: a very brief history — The idea of deliberation — Deliberation and democracy in the early American republic — Whitman, Dewey, and the place of the arts — Theories of republicanism and deliberative democracy — Modern republicanism in the Atlantic world — The eloquence of modern republicanism — The view from Bunker Hill — Writing the modern republic — Models of ancient eloquence — Res publica redivivus — Eloquent Shakespeare — Arguing with the Bible — The politics and aesthetics of deliberation — The rise of literary oratory — Daniel Webster’s genuine word — The frontier humor of David Crockett — Prophesying the multiracial republic — Democracy and the three races — Beyond the white Christian republic — Reasoning with David Walker — Listening to the wisdom of babes — Toward multiracial deliberations — Deliberative fictions — Failures of deliberation — Cooper’s trials — How to read deliberatively — Democratic hermeneutics — The great American deliberative novel — Protest at Mashpee — Property matters — Conclusion: deliberative democracy past and future.

Subjects:

• Deliberative democracy — United States.
• United States — Politics and government — 1815-1861.
• United States — History — 1815-1861.

Requested by Lansing, M.