Debating the American State Liberal Anxieties and the New Leviathan, 1930-1970 - Kornhauser, Anne M. (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015)
Through a broad and unusual cast of characters—from American social scientists and legal academics, to German refugee intellectuals, to the philosopher John Rawls—Debating the American State shows that the "leviathan" administrative state was never given a proper and principled justification by the liberals who built and supported it