Gary Gerstle, Liberty and Coercion: The Paradox of American Government from the Founding to the Present (2015).

K. Sabeel Rahman

As a field, legal history has long been centrally concerned with the patterns and trajectories of American political development and state formation. In his recent book, Liberty and Coercion: The Paradox of American Government from the Founding to the Present (Princeton University Press, 2015), Gary Gerstle offers a compact and highly readable synthesis of the long arc of the battles over […]