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Robert A. Nisbet, The Present Age: Progress and Anarchy in Modern America [1988]

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The Present Age: Progress and Anarchy in Modern America (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2003).


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Nisbet examines the role of the United States in the world since World War I focusing on the threats that the unprecedented militarization of American life in the decades after 1914, bureaucracy, centralization, and creeping conformity pose to liberty and individual independence in the western world.

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Liberty Fund, Inc. is a private, educational foundation established to encourage the study of the ideal of a society of free and responsible individuals.


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