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Genre/Form: | History |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: History of American political thought. Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, ©2003 (OCoLC)624787447 |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Bryan-Paul Frost; Jeffrey Sikkenga |
ISBN: | 0739106236 0739106244 9780739106235 9780739106242 |
OCLC Number: | 51984799 |
Description: | xii, 834 pages ; 27 cm. |
Contents: | pt. 1. From colony to nation (1608-1776). John Winthrop, John Cotton, and Nathaniel Niles : the basic principles of Puritan political thought / Michael J. Rosano ; Thomas Hutchinson and James Otis on sovereignty, obedience, and rebellion / Howard L. Lubert ; Thomas Paine : the American radical / John Koritansky ; Benjamin Franklin : a model American and an American model / Steven Forde -- pt. 2. The new republic (1776-1820). Liberty, constitutionalism, and moderation : the political thought of George Washington / Paul O. Carrese ; John Adams and the republic of laws / Richard Samuelson ; Legitimate government, religion, and education : the political philosophy of Thomas Jefferson / Aristide Tessitore ; The political science of James Madison / Michael P. Zuckert ; Alexander Hamilton on the strategy of American free government / Karl-Friedrich Walling ; America's modernity : James Wilson on natural law and natural rights / Eduardo A. Velásquez ; Anti-Federalist political thought : Brutus and The Federal Farmer / Murray Dry ; The new constitutionalism of Publius / James R. Stoner, Jr. ; Union, constitutionalism, and the judicial defense of rights : John Marshall / Matthew J. Franck -- pt. 3. A divided nation (1820-1865). John Quincy Adams on principle and practice / David Tucker ; Union and liberty : the political thought of Daniel Webster / Sean Mattie ; Henry Clay and the statesmanship of compromise / Kimberly C. Shankman ; John C. Calhoun and the reexamination of American democracy / John Agresto ; The art of the judge : Justice Joseph Story and the Founders' Constitution / Peter Schotten ; James Fenimore Cooper : nature and nature's God / John E. Alvis ; Religion, nature, and disobedience in the thought of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau / Bryan-Paul Frost ; "Proclaim liberty throughout the land" : Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, and the abolition of slavery / Richard S. Ruderman ; Abraham Lincoln : the moderation of a democratic statesman / Steven Kautz. pt. 4. Growth of an empire (1865-1945). Feminism as an American project : the political thought of Elizabeth Cady Stanton / Melissa S. Williams ; Mark Twain on the American character / David Foster ; Pricking the bubble of utopian sentiment : the political thought of William Graham Sumner / Lance Robinson ; Booker T. Washington and the "severe American crucible" / Peter W. Schramm ; Co-workers in the Kingdom of Culture : W.E.B. Du Bois's vision of race synthesis / Jonathan Marks ; Henry Adams and our ancient faith / Christopher Flannery ; Jane Addams as civic theorist : struggling to reconcile competing claims / Jean Bethke Elshtain ; Herbert Croly's progressive "liberalism" / Thomas S. Engeman ; Theodore Roosevelt and the stewardship of the American presidency / Jean M. Yarbrough ; Woodrow Wilson, the organic state, and American republicanism / Ronald J. Pestritto ; The making of the modern Supreme Court : Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., and Louis D. Brandeis / David F. Forte ; John Dewey's alternative liberalism / David Fott ; Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the second Bill of Rights / Donald R. Brand -- pt. 5. New challenges at home and abroad (1945-present). Ayn Rand : radical for capitalism / William Thomas ; Walker Percy's American Thomism / Peter Augustine Lawler ; Russell Kirk's Anglo-American conservatism / James McClellan ; The two revolutions of Martin Luther King, Jr. / Peter C. Myers ; Malcolm X : from apolitical acolyte to political preacher / Lucas E. Morel ; Betty Friedan and Gloria Steinem : the popular transformation of American feminism in the late twentieth century / Natalie Taylor and Daryl McGowan Tress ; John Rawls's "democratic" theory of justice / David Lewis Schaefer ; Henry Kissinger : the challenge of statesmanship in liberal democracy / Peter Josephson ; Irving Kristol and the reinvigoration of bourgeois republicanism / Laurence D. Cooper ; The jurisprudence of William Joseph Brennan, Jr., and Thurgood Marshall / Bradley C.S. Watson ; The textualist jurisprudence of Antonin Scalia / Ralph A. Rossum. |
Series Title: | Applications of political theory. |
Responsibility: | edited by Bryan-Paul Frost and Jeffrey Sikkenga. |
Abstract:
Revised and updated, this long-awaited second edition provides a comprehensive introduction to the most important American statesmen, activists, and writers regardless of the historical era or political persuasion.
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This collection of forty-five separately authored essays of fifty-five American political thinkers is at once diverse and unified. While this collection establishes a consensual Lockean philosophical founding, this founding, despite its internal tensions, is a philosophically articulate and coherent set of principles that underwrite the American regime of liberty. * Hisory of Political Thought * Frost and Sikkenga have done a great service for students and teachers of American political thought in editing this massive volume. Highly recommended. * CHOICE * Read more...
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