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American Political Cultures by Richard J. Ellis Paperback, 272 Pages, Published 1996 ISBN-10: 0-19-511138-9 / 0195111389 ISBN-13: 978-0-19-511138-5 / 9780195111385 This work challenges the thesis first formulated by de Tocqueville and later systematically developed by Louis Hartz, that American political culture is characterized by a consensus on liberal capitalist values. Ranging over three hundred years of history and drawing upon the seminal work anthropolo |