Has the nation's infatuation with the free market warped the true meaning of American freedom by its emphasis on the self-serving individual in a -looking out for Number One- world?

Freedom is America's most treasured value. In Freedom Reclaimed, John E. Schwarz examines the profound implications of the difference between the vision of American freedom that the Founders enshrined in the Declaration of Independence and the free-market idea of freedom that is ascendant today. Schwarz shows how the three-decade shift toward free-market freedom has brought economic hardship to the...