SOURCE: “Edward Bellamy and the Politics of Meaning,” in American Scholar, Vol. 64, No. 2, Spring, 1995, pp. 264-71.
In the following essay, McClay discusses the significance of the Civil War as an impetus to Bellamy's authoritarian vision of a “great community.”
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