Freedom from Want: American Liberalism and the Idea of the Consumer (New Studies in American Intellectual and Cultural History)

by KathleenG.Donohue (Author)

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  Paperback
  2005

  $30.33

  Deftly combining intellectual, cultural, and political history, Freedom from Want sheds new light on the ways in which Americans reconceptualized the place of the consumer in society and the implications of these shifting attitudes for the philosophy ofliberalism and the role of government in safeguarding the material welfare of the people.