Creating a Nation of Joiners: Democracy and Civil Society in Early National Massachusetts (Harvard Historical Studies)

by Johann N. (Author), Neem (Author)

• New

  Hardcover
  2008

  $81.38

  Ever since Alexis de Tocqueville published his observations in Democracy in America , Americans have recognized the distinctiveness of their voluntary tradition. This book traces the origins of this venerable tradition to the vexed beginnings of American democracy in Massachusetts.