Too Much Liberty: Perspectives on Freedom and the American Dream

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David Saari provides an extended essay on the nature of freedom in contemporary America, its historical roots, and its present-day manifestations. Drawing on the fields of history, law, politics, business, and philosophy, this wide-ranging study examines three facets of freedomnational freedom, freedom from the state, and freedom within the stateas they have developed in American law, politics, and society. Each of these facets is carefully defined and then applied to such contemporary issues as authority, property, equality, justice, and privacy.

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Americans are confused over the subject of liberty, according to Saari. For some, Americans have too little liberty, whereas for others, there is too much. The source of this debate lies in confusion regarding what the term liberty means. Too Much Liberty offers the general reader an effort to sort out its meaning. It provides a definition of the term within the American context, and uses it to discuss contemporary policy disputes. General undergraduates.-Choice
"Americans are confused over the subject of liberty, according to Saari. For some, Americans have too little liberty, whereas for others, there is too much. The source of this debate lies in confusion regarding what the term liberty means. Too Much Liberty offers the general reader an effort to sort out its meaning. It provides a definition of the term within the American context, and uses it to discuss contemporary policy disputes. General undergraduates."-Choice

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DAVID J. SAARI is Professor of Public Affairs at the American University in Washington, D.C. He holds a B.A. and J.D. from the University of Minnesota and is the author of American Court Management (Quorum Books, 1982) and The Court and Free-Lance Reporter Profession (Quorum Books, 1988).