Book 4: The Third American Revolution – Institutionalizing America
Alexis de Tocqueville’s astonishing prediction was fulfilled during the Third American Revolution. JamesThompson introduces his discussion of it with a brief biography of social philosopher and activist John Dewey, whose concepts of reform inspired two 20th-century reconstructions of American society. The first was the Roosevelt Revolution, which produced a Benevolent Government and the Nietzschean network of bureaucrats that administered it. The second was the social justice movement, which produced the imperial hierarchy that controlled everything in America. Thompson explains that Vietnam undermined this all-powerful galère and opened the door for Woodstock Nation and its liberation movement. This movement, says Thompson, constituted a fourth American revolution, which has continued since the mid-1980s.