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The House of Truth : a Washington political salon and the foundations of American liberalism /

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 a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Snyder, Brad, 1972- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, [2017]
Subjects:
Washington (D.C.) > Politics and government > 20th century.
Washington (D.C.) > Intellectual life > 20th century.
Washington (D.C.) > Social life and customs > 20th century.
Salons > Washington (D.C.) > History > 20th century.
Political culture > Washington (D.C.) > History > 20th century.
Politicians > United States > Biography.
Intellectuals > United States > Biography.
Liberalism > United States > History > 20th century.
United States > Politics and government > 1913-1921.
United States > Politics and government > 1919-1933.
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.