Notes
1. See Roelofs, Poverty of American Politics; and Hofstadter, American Political Tradition. For recent works on the problem of American individualism, see Anderson, Fantasyland; and Deneen, Why Liberalism Failed.
2. Hobbes, Leviathan, 103.
3. Lewis, It Can’t Happen Here. See also Roth, Plot Against America.
4. See Judis, Populist Explosion.
5. Lane, “Winner Take All,” 42.
6. See Toqueville, Democracy in America; Dienstag, “Serving God and Mammon”; Huntington, American Politics; Diggins, Lost Soul of American Politics; and Bellah, Madsen, Sullivan, Swidler, and Tipton, Habits of the Heart.