2. Lincoln and Whitman as Representative Americans

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. 1. The Democratic Soul 16
5. 2. Lincoln and Whitman as Representative Americans 36
6. 3. Public Emblem, Private Realm: Family and Polity in the United States 53
7. 4. Can Religion Tolerate Democracy? (And Vice Versa?) 67
8. 5. Taking Democracy to School 99
9. 6. The Misuse of Numbers: Audits, Quantification, and the Obfuscation of Politics 115
10. 7. Neither Capitalist nor American: The Democracy as Social Movement 138
11. 8. Democracy and the Market 154
12. 9. Democracy and Distribution 173
13. 10. Democracy and Foreign Policy 205
14. 11. Dinner with Democracy 222
15. 12. American Democracy and the Origins of the Biomedical Revolution 236
16. 13. Computers and Democracy 258
17. Contributors 273
18. Index 275