Houston’s culture of rugged communitarianism
September 25, 2017 • by Joe Carter
In the late 1920s, a primary theme of Herbert Hoover’s presidential campaign was the idea of “rugged individualism,” the practice or advocacy of individualism in social and economic relations emphasizing personal liberty and independence, self-reliance, resourcefulness, self-direction of the individual, and free competition in enterprise
As Hoover said about the era in the U.S. Continue Reading...