Liberty, equality, and justice have long been treasured in American culture as core values. In "Liberty, Equality, and Justice," Ross Evans Paulson studies social and intellectual changes in a critical period of American history--from the end of the Civil War to the early days of the Depression--and argues that attempts to achieve civil rights, women's rights, and the regulation of business faltered because so many Americans ranked liberty for themselves higher than equality with others and justice for all.
Surveying a crucial period in the formation of the modern state and society,...

Examines the prevailing conflicts of the time and the limitations of various attempts to institute reform, radical change, or ritualistic renewal of American society. The author studies social and intellectual changes in a critical period of American history - from the end of the Civil War to the early days of the Depression.