What Does America Mean?

Author/Contributor(s):	Meiklejohn, Alexander
Publisher:	W. W. Norton & Company
Date:	05/01/1972
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

A distinguished social philosopher offers a searching argument on freedom and national purpose. Written at the depth of the Depression, in a time of deep national concern over America's future, What Does America Mean? was addressed to students, to the young who have been alienated and embittered by our betrayal of our own deepest commitments. It is the quality of the spirit that Meiklejohn seeks to define: "Our questions is not, "Do Americans get justice?' but rather, 'Do Americans give justice?'" Today, more than a generation later, the book still demands of us, not "What's going to become of America?" but "What do we mean America to become?"