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Genre/Form: | History |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Challenges to the American founding. Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, ©2005 (OCoLC)607588297 |
Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Ronald J Pestritto; Thomas G West |
ISBN: | 0739108719 9780739108710 0739108727 9780739108727 |
OCLC Number: | 55738079 |
Description: | x, 304 pages ; 24 cm |
Contents: | Republicanism and constitutional government in the political thought of Andrew Jackson / Richard J. Dougherty -- John C. Calhoun and the new science of race and politics / Thomas L. Krannawitter -- Lincoln, secession, and revolution : the Civil War challenge to the founding / Herman Belz -- Jefferson Davis and self-government / Will Morrisey -- Protecting the privileges of citizenship : founding, civil war, and reconstruction / David Upham -- Theology, metaphysics, and positivism : the origins of the social sciences and the transformation of the American university / John Marini -- Shoreless ocean, sunless sea : Henry Adams' democracy / Charles T. Rubin -- Walt Whitman's civic religion for America / John E. Alvis -- Jane Addams, Benjamin Franklin, and the problem of welfare dependency / Joel Schwartz -- Woodrow Wilson, American history, and the advent of progressivism / Ronald J. Pestritto. |
Responsibility: | edited by Ronald J. Pestritto and Thomas G. West. |
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Abstract:
American politics in the twentieth century and beyond represents a sharp departure from the political vision of the American founders. This volume looks to the roots of this departure in the political ideas of nineteenth-century America, where the first substantial challenges to the founders' thought arose.
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Inspired by the writings of Leo Strauss, this collection of essays explores how the original U.S. founding was contested and challenged by the Civil War, industrialization, and the rise of the progressive era in the writings of such diverse thinkers as John Calhoun, Jefferson Davis, Abraham Lincoln, Henry Adams, and Jane Adams.... A good addition to collections on U.S. political thought or history.... Recommended. General readers and undergraduate collections and above. -- D. Schultz, Hamline University * CHOICE * Recommended. * CHOICE * Read more...

