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

Snyder, Brad, author

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\"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 and Frankfurter were house-mates, and their frequent guests included not merely Holmes but Louis Brandeis, Herbert Hoover, Louis Croly--founder of the New Republic--and the sculptor (and sometime Klansman) Gutzon Borglum, later the creator of the Mount Rushmore monument. Weaving together the stories and trajectories of these varied, fascinating, combative, and sometimes contradictory figures, Brad Snyder shows how their thinking about government and policy shifted from a firm belief in progressivism--the belief that the government should protect its workers and regulate monopolies--into what we call liberalism--the belief that government can improve citizens' lives without abridging their civil liberties and, eventually, civil rights. Holmes replaced Roosevelt in their affections and aspirations. His famous dissents from 1919 onward showed how the Due Process clause could protect not just business but equality under the law, revealing how a generally conservative and reactionary Supreme Court might embrace, even initiate, political and social reform. Across the years, from 1912 until the start of the New Deal in 1933, the remarkable group of individuals associated with the House of Truth debated the future of America\"--Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Subject: 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. / Washington (D.C.) Politics and government 20th century. / Washington (D.C.) Intellectual life 20th century. / Washington (D.C.) Social life and customs 20th century. / United States Politics and government 1913-1921. / United States Politics and government 1919-1933.
• ISBN: 9780190261986

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