Liberty and coercion : the paradox of American government from the founding to the present / Gary Gerstle.

Princeton, New Jersey ; Woodstock, Oxfordshire : Princeton University Press, 2015.

xv, 452 pages ; 25 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Cover art: Flattened US flags. © Bruce Peterson / Offset.com

Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2019. EPUB file. ([ACLS Humanities E-Book])

Published by Princeton University Press.

Second printing, and first paperback printing, 2018.

This book has been composed in Sabon LT Std and Univers Lt Std.

Printed on acid-free paper.

Printed in the United States of America.

Foundations, 1780s–1860s -- Improvisations, 1860s–1920s -- Compromises, 1920s–1940s -- American Leviathan, 1940s–2010s.

A Liberal Central State Emerges -- The States and Their Police Power -- Strategies of Liberal Rule -- Lessons of Total War -- Parties, Money, Corruption -- Agrarian Protest and the New Liberal State -- Reconfiguring Labor-Capital Relations -- An Era of Near-Permanent War -- Breaking the Power of the States -- Conservative Revolt.