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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: House of Truth
    sub title: a Washington political salon and the foundations of American liberalism
  name:
    name part: Snyder, Brad
    name part: 1972-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: biography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2017
    copyright date: 2017
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: viii, 811 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
  abstract: Theodore Roosevelt's Bull Moose campaign. They self-mockingly called the 19th Street row house in which they congregated the 'House of Truth,' playing off the lively dinner discussions with frequent guest (and neighbor) Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. about life's verities. Lippmann and Frankfurter were housemates, and their frequent guests included not merely Holmes but Louis Brandeis, Herbert Hoover, Louis Croly, founder of the New Republic and the sculptor (and sometime Klansman) Gutzon Borglum, later the creator of the Mount Rushmore monument. Weaving together the stories and trajectories of these varied, fascinating, combative and sometimes contradictory figures, Brad Snyder shows how their thinking about government and policy shifted from a firm belief in progressivism, the belief that the government should protect its workers and regulate monopolies, into what we call liberalism, the belief that government can improve citizens' lives without abridging their civil liberties and, eventually, civil rights. Holmes replaced Roosevelt in their affections and aspirations. His famous dissents from 1919 onward showed how the Due Process clause could protect not just business but equality under the law, revealing how a generally conservative and reactionary Supreme Court might embrace, even initiate, political and social reform. Across the years, from 1912 until the start of the New Deal in 1933, the remarkable group of individuals associated with the House of Truth debated the future of America.
  table of contents: Expanding horizons -- 1727 Nineteenth Street -- The call of the moose -- The center of the universe -- Buddha -- The soldier's faith -- Temperamentally unfit -- Our founder -- Fighting Valentine's fight -- The house at war -- One man war -- Uniting the labor army -- The inquiry -- The wonderful one -- The H/T cannot be re-constituted -- Harvard's dangerous men -- Touched with fire -- Protestant of Nordic stock -- We live by symbols -- The 1924 election and the basic issues of liberalism -- Eloquence may set fire to reason -- A fly on an elephant -- No ordinary case -- This world cares more for red than for black -- A damn poor psychologist -- The happy warrior -- Freedom for the thought that we hate -- America's shrine for political democracy -- The best men -- A very great beginning -- The hard case has melted.
  note: Brad Snyder.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us-dc
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    geographic: Washington (D.C.)
    topic: Politics and government
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    geographic: Washington (D.C.)
    topic: Intellectual life
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    geographic: Washington (D.C.)
    topic: Social life and customs
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    topic: Salons
    geographic: Washington (D.C.)
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    topic: Political culture
    geographic: Washington (D.C.)
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    topic: Politicians
    geographic: United States
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Intellectuals
    geographic: United States
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Liberalism
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    geographic: United States
    topic: Politics and government
    temporal: 1913-1921
  subject:
    geographic: United States
    topic: Politics and government
    temporal: 1919-1933
  classification: F199 .S67 2017
  classification: 328.73/092/2 B
  classification: 975.3/03
  identifier: 9780190261986 (hardcover : alk. paper) :
  identifier: 0190261986 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  identifier: 2016014092
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 160401
    record change date: 20170926152903.0
    record identifier: in00003717006