@article{10.4159/harvard.9780674061286, author = {Rosenfeld, Sophia A.}, url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1403944}, title = {Common sense a political history / [electronic resource] :}, publisher = {Harvard University Press,}, abstract = {Common Sense reveals a political ideal so fundamental to American politics that we are unaware of its power and its myriad uses. Sophia Rosenfeld shows how common sense--the wisdom of ordinary people, self-evident truths--has been used to justify all political extremes, with a history that is anything but commonsensical.}, number = {10.4159/harvard.9780674061286}, recid = {1403944}, pages = {1 online resource (337 p., [14] p. of plates) :}, address = {Cambridge, Mass. :}, year = {2011}, }