Freedom from Want: American Liberalism and the Idea of the Consumer

by Kathleen G. Donohue

Book Overview

In 1941, Franklin Delano Roosevelt identified four essential human freedoms. Three of these--freedom from fear, freedom of speech, and freedom of religion--had long been understood as defining principles of liberalism. Roosevelt's fourth freedom--freedom from want--was not. Indeed, classic liberals had argued that the only way to guarantee this freedom would be through an illiberal redistribution of wealth. In Freedom from Want, Kathleen...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801874262
• ISBN13: 9780801874260
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.3"