The Present Age
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.
The Present Age: Progress and Anarchy in Modern America (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2003).
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- Author: Robert A. Nisbet
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Table of Contents
- Contents
- Foreword
- The Present Age
- I: The Prevalence of War
- II: The New Absolutism
- III: The Loose Individual
- Epilogue
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