American Individualism The Challenge To Liberty
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American Individualism The Challenge To Liberty
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Author : Hoover, Herbert
language : en
Publisher: Best Books on
Release Date : 1922-01-01
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American Individualism
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Author : Herbert Hoover
language : en
Publisher: Herbert Hoover Presidential
Release Date : 1989-01-01
American Individualism written by Herbert Hoover and has been published by Herbert Hoover Presidential this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989-01-01 with History categories.
From the Preface: Hoover's message in American Individualism was not so gray as his prose. Like most one-time Progressives, he looked forward to perpetual advance, spurred on by technology, inhibited only by irrational politicians, greedy interest groups, and what he called "individualism run riot." His was an incremental idealism, wherein personal success was tempered and purified by service to others. "Character is made in the community as well as in the individual by assuming responsibilities," wrote the man who had abandoned his engineering career to feed war-ravaged Europe, "not by escape from them." In his 1922 work, the future president envisioned a delicate balancing act between capitalists, workers and a public represented by the national government. Should one group gain authority over the others, the result would be fascism, socialism, or tyranny by bureaucracy. And individualism-the mainspring of American greatness-would be crippled for good. Twelve years would pass before Hoover's next attempt at codifying values. The Challenge to Liberty was necessarily a very different work, less a summons to cooperation than a warning against incipient fascism. "I am no more fond of the Wall Street model of liberty than I am of the Pennsylvania Avenue model," asserted the former president, for whom the Bill of Rights took precedence over property rights. Now, as in 1922, Hoover wrote in the shadow of revolution, nationalistic frenzy and economic confusion. But he did not fear Depression-era mobs in the streets of American cities. The threat to liberty was more subtile than that. What Hoover termed "the tragedy of Liberty" followed a similar pattern on both sides of the Atlantic: "idealism without realism, slogans, phrases and statements destructive to confidence in existing institutions, demands for violent action against slowly curable ills; unfair representation that sporadic wickedness in the system itself." Next came the man on horseback, demanding delegation of authority from elected representatives, denouncing all opposition and exploiting propagandists in the pay of the state.
The Challenge To Liberty
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Author : Herbert Hoover
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1971
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American Individualism
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Author : Herbert Hoover
language : en
Publisher: Hoover Press
Release Date : 2016-12-01
American Individualism written by Herbert Hoover and has been published by Hoover Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-12-01 with Political Science categories.
In late 1921, then secretary of commerce Herbert Hoover decided to distill from his experiences a coherent understanding of the American experiment he cherished. The result was the 1922 book American Individualism. In it, Hoover expounded and vigorously defended what has come to be called American exceptionalism: the set of beliefs and values that still makes America unique. He argued that America can make steady, sure progress if we preserve our individualism, preserve and stimulate the initiative of our people, insist on and maintain the safeguards to equality of opportunity, and honor service as a part of our national character. American Individualism asserts that equal opportunity for individuals to develop their abilities is "the sole source of progress" and the fundamental impulse behind American civilization for three—now four—centuries. More than ninety years have passed since this book was first published; it is clear, in retrospect, that the volume was partly motivated by the political controversies of the time. But American Individualism is not simply a product of a dim and receding past. To a considerable degree the ideological battles of Hoover's era are the battles of our own, and the interpretations we make of our past—particularly the years between 1921 and 1933—will mold our perspective on the crises of the present.
Rugged Individualism
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Author : David Davenport
language : en
Publisher: Hoover Press
Release Date : 2017-01-01
Rugged Individualism written by David Davenport and has been published by Hoover Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-01-01 with Philosophy categories.
Today, American "rugged individualism" is in a fight for its life on two battlegrounds: in the policy realm and in the intellectual world of ideas that may lead to new policies. In this book, the authors look at the political context in which rugged individualism flourishes or declines and offer a balanced assessment of its future prospects. They outline its path from its founding—marked by the Declaration of Independence—to today, focusing on different periods in our history when rugged individualism was thriving or was under attack. The authors ultimately look with some optimism toward new frontiers of the twenty-first century that may nourish rugged individualism. They assert that we cannot tip the delicate balance between equality and liberty so heavily in favor of equality that there is no liberty left for individual Americans to enjoy.
Herbert Hoover And American Individualism
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Author : Walter Friar Dexter
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1932
Herbert Hoover And American Individualism written by Walter Friar Dexter and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1932 with categories.
A modern interpretation of a national ideal.
The Challenge Of Liberty
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Author : Robert Vernon Jones
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1956
The Challenge Of Liberty written by Robert Vernon Jones and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1956 with Liberty categories.
Herbert Hoover S Intellectual Development
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Author : Bradley Tice
language : en
Publisher: Author House
Release Date : 2004-08-05
Herbert Hoover S Intellectual Development written by Bradley Tice and has been published by Author House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-08-05 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Herbert Hoover was a man of many talents: engineer, successful businessman, President of the United States of America and Elder Political Statesman. Hoover's life experiences shaped his values and these values are embodied in four of his own books: De Re Metallica, Principles of Mining, American Individualism, and The Challenge to Liberty. These four works illuminate his intellectual development. It will be these four works by Hoover that will be examined in the context of his life and his intellectual development.
Liberty And Law
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Author : George Lacy
language : en
Publisher: Legare Street Press
Release Date : 2023-07-18
Liberty And Law written by George Lacy and has been published by Legare Street Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-07-18 with categories.
George Lacy challenges the individualistic philosophy of Herbert Spencer and the political economists, arguing that true liberty requires a just and equitable social order. This book is a provocative exploration of the relationship between liberty, law, and society that will appeal to anyone interested in political theory. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
The Myth Of American Individualism
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Author : Barry Alan Shain
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 1996-08-25
The Myth Of American Individualism written by Barry Alan Shain and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-08-25 with History categories.
Sharpening the debate over the values that formed America's founding political philosophy, Barry Alan Shain challenges us to reconsider what early Americans meant when they used such basic political concepts as the public good, liberty, and slavery. We have too readily assumed, he argues, that eighteenth-century Americans understood these and other terms in an individualistic manner. However, by exploring how these core elements of their political thought were employed in Revolutionary-era sermons, public documents, newspaper editorials, and political pamphlets, Shain reveals a very different understanding--one based on a reformed Protestant communalism. In this context, individual liberty was the freedom to order one's life in accord with the demanding ethical standards found in Scripture and confirmed by reason. This was in keeping with Americans' widespread acceptance of original sin and the related assumption that a well-lived life was only possible in a tightly knit, intrusive community made up of families, congregations, and local government bodies. Shain concludes that Revolutionary-era Americans defended a Protestant communal vision of human flourishing that stands in stark opposition to contemporary liberal individualism. This overlooked component of the American political inheritance, he further suggests, demands examination because it alters the historical ground upon which contemporary political alternatives often seek legitimation, and it facilitates our understanding of much of American history and of the foundational language still used in authoritative political documents.