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Hartz s influential interpretation of american political thought since the Revolution. He contends that americanca gave rise to a new concept of a liberal society, a liberal tradition that has been central to our experience of events both at home and abroad. New Introduction by Tom Wicker; Index.
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Hartz elaborates his widly discussed "fragment theory" of new societies and projects some of its implications for the modern age.

Louis Hartz is best known for his classic study, The Liberal Tradition in America. At Harvard University, his lecture course on nineteenth-century politics and ideologies was memorable. Through the editorial hand of Paul Roazen, we can now share the experience of Hartz's considerable contributions to the theory of politics. At the root of Hartz's work is the belief that revolution is not produced by misery, but by pressure of a new system on an old one. This approach enables him to explain sharp differences in revolutionary traditions. Because America essentially was a liberal society from...