Click Here to Download: https://ouo.io/Z9mbuz Rugged Individualism: Dead or Alive? By: David Davenport Publisher: Hoover Press Print ISBN: 9780817920241, 0817920242 eText ISBN: 9780817920289, 0817920285 Edition: 1st Format: PDF Available from $ 1.25 USD SKU 9780817920289R30 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 to new policies. In this book, the authors look at the political context in which rugged individualism flourishes or declines and offer a balanced assessment of its future prospects. They outline its path from its founding—marked by the Declaration of Independence—to today, focusing on different periods in our history when rugged individualism was thriving or was under attack. The authors ultimately look with some optimism toward new frontiers of the twenty-first century that may nourish rugged individualism. They assert that we cannot tip the delicate balance between equality and liberty so heavily in favor of equality that there is no liberty left for individual Americans to enjoy.
