Notes
1. See Hartz, Liberal Tradition in America; and Tocqueville, Democracy in America.
2. Strauss, Natural Right and History.
3. See Macpherson, Theory of Possessive Individualism.
4. See, for example, Roelofs, Poverty of American Politics; and Roelofs, Ideology and Myth; Hofstadter, The American Political; Putnam, “Bowling Alone.”
5. Hobbes, Leviathan, 103.
6. See Ford, Letters of Henry Adams.
7. For excellent studies of Emerson’s concept of transcendent individualism, see Kateb, Emerson and Self-Reliance; and Kateb, The Inner Ocean.