Exploring the means by which individuals define themselves in relation to their institutional affiliations.

Individualization argues that we are in the midst of a fundamental change in the nature of society and politics. This change hinges around two processes: global

In this book, Hoover expounds and vigorously defends what has come to be called American exceptionalism: the set of beliefs and values that still makes America

Today, American "rugged individualism" is in a fight for its life on two battlegrounds: in the policy realm and in the intellectual world of ideas that may lead

Gordon provides an intellectual history of the concept of racial prejudice in postwar America. In particular, she asks, what accounts for the dominance of theor