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- In the United States, individualism became part of the core American ideology by the 19th century, incorporating the influences of New England Puritanism, Jeffersonianism, and the philosophy of natural rights.
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Nov 4, 2022 · The Roots of American Individualism traces the origins of individualist ideas to the turbulent political controversies of the Jacksonian era (1820–1850) and explores their enduring influence on American politics and culture. What are political myths, and what led you to focus on them in this book?
Oct 11, 2022 · The Roots of American Individualism traces the origins of individualist ideas to the turbulent political controversies of the Jacksonian era (1820–1850) and explores their enduring influence on American politics and culture.
Oct 11, 2022 · The Roots of American Individualism traces the origins of individualist ideas to the turbulent political controversies of the Jacksonian era (1820–1850) and explores their enduring influence on American politics and culture.
- Alex Zakaras
- October 11, 2022
Sep 1, 2024 · Zakaras persuasively contends that the age of Jackson witnessed the crystallizing of a bipartisan “political myth” valorizing liberty, rights, and individualism, a “myth” that has proven surprisingly resilient and with which we still live today—for better and for worse.
Zakaras identifies three strains of American political myth centered on the individual and traces their evolution in the Jacksonian era. These are the myth of the independent proprietor, that of the rights-bearer, and that of the self-made man (p. 5).
Oct 4, 2022 · The Roots of American Individualism traces the origins of individualist ideas to the turbulent political controversies of the Jacksonian era (1820–1850) and explores their enduring...
Dec 20, 2022 · Zakaras makes a powerful argument that the Jacksonian era (1820–50), generally treated by historians as a politically unimportant interlude between the founding of the United States and the Civil War, was instead a seminal time that saw the formation of the narrative of a uniquely American individualism, which still shapes politics today.
