History of American Political Thought

Herausgeber: Frost, Bryan-Paul; Sikkenga, Jeffrey

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• 2nd edition
• Seitenzahl: 968
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Februar 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 260mm x 183mm x 56mm
• Gewicht: 1980g
• ISBN-13: 9781498558693
• ISBN-10: 1498558690
• Artikelnr.: 54436004

Autorenporträt

Bryan-Paul Frost is endowed professor of political science at the University of Louisiana, Lafayette. Jeffrey Sikkenga is professor of political science at Ashland University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America Harvey C.
Mansfield and Delba Winthrop Part One: From Colony To Nation (1608-1776)
Ch. 1 John Winthrop, John Cotton, and Nathaniel Niles: The Basic Principles
of Puritan Political Thought Michael J. Rosano Ch. 2 Thomas Hutchinson and
James Otis on Sovereignty, Obedience, and Rebellion Howard L. Lubert Ch. 3
Thomas Paine: The American Radical John C. Koritansky Ch. 4 Benjamin
Franklin: A Model American and an American Model Steven Forde Part Two: The
New Republic (1776-1820) Ch. 5 Liberty, Constitutionalism, and Moderation:
George Washington's Harmonizing of Traditions Paul O. Carrese Ch. 6 John
Adams and the Republic of Laws Richard Samuelson Ch. 7 Legitimate
Government, Religion, and Education: The Political Philosophy of Thomas
Jefferson Aristide Tessitore Ch. 8 The Political Science of James Madison
Michael P. Zuckert Ch. 9 Alexander Hamilton on the Grand Strategy of Free
Government Karl-Friedrich Walling Ch. 10America's Modernity: James Wilson
on Natural Law and Natural Rights Eduardo A. Velásquez Ch.
11Anti-Federalist Political Thought: Brutus and The Federal Farmer Murray
Dry Ch. 12The New Constitutionalism of Publius James R. Stoner, Jr. Ch.
13Union, Constitutionalism, and the Judicial Defense of Rights: John
Marshall Matthew J. Franck Part Three: A Divided Nation (1820-1865) Ch.
14John Quincy Adams on Principle and Practice David Tucker Ch.15Union and
Liberty: The Political Thought of Daniel Webster Sean Mattie Ch. 16Henry
Clay and the Statesmanship of Compromise Kimberly C. Shankman Ch. 17 For
Constitution and Country? John C. Calhoun, American Politics, and the Union
George D. Alecusan Ch. 18The Art of the Judge: Justice Joseph Story and the
Founders' Constitution Peter Schotten Ch. 19James Fenimore Cooper: Nature
and Nature's God John E. Alvis Ch.20Religion, Nature, and Disobedience in
the Thought of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau Bryan-Paul Frost
Ch.21"Proclaim Liberty throughout the Land": Frederick Douglass, William
Lloyd Garrison, and the Abolition of Slavery Richard S. Ruderman Ch.
22Abraham Lincoln: The Moderation of a Democratic Statesman Steven Kautz
Part Four: Growth of an Empire (1865-1945) Ch.23 Walt Whitman and Politics
by Other Means Peter S. Field Ch. 24Feminism as an American Project: The
Political Thought of Elizabeth Cady Stanton Melissa S. Williams Ch. 25Mark
Twain on the American Character David Foster Ch. 26Pricking the Bubble of
Utopian Sentiment: The Political Thought of William Graham Sumner Lance
Robinson Ch. 27Booker T. Washington and the "Severe American Crucible"
Peter W. Schramm Ch. 28Co-workers in the Kingdom of Culture: W. E. B. Du
Bois's Vision of Race Synthesis Jonathan Marks C. 29Henry Adams and Our
Ancient Faith Christopher Flannery Ch. 30Jane Addams as Civic Theorist:
Struggling to Reconcile Competing Claims Jean Bethke Elshtain Ch. 31Herbert
Croly's Progressive "Liberalism" Thomas S. Engeman Ch. 32Theodore Roosevelt
and the Stewardship of the American Presidency Jean M. Yarbrough Ch.
33Woodrow Wilson, the Organic State, and American Republicanism Ronald J.
Pestritto Ch. 34The Making of the Modern Supreme Court: Oliver Wendell
Holmes, Jr., and Louis D. Brandeis David F. Forte Ch. 35John Dewey's
Alternative Liberalism David Fott Ch. 36Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the
Second Bill of Rights Donald R. Brand Part Five: New Challenges at Home and
Abroad (1945-present) Ch. 37Ayn Rand: Radical for Capitalism William R.
Thomas Ch. 38Walker Percy's American Thomism Peter Augustine Lawler Ch.
39Russell Kirk's Anglo-American Conservatism James McClellan Ch. 40The Two
Revolutions of Martin Luther King, Jr. Peter C. Myers Ch. 41Malcolm X: From
Apolitical Acolyte to Political Preacher Lucas E. Morel Ch. 42Betty Friedan
and Gloria Steinem: The Popular Transformation of American Feminism in the
Late Twentieth Century Natalie Fuehrer Taylor and Daryl McGowan Tress Ch.
43"The Secret Heart of America": Lyndon Baines Johnson's Bold Synthesis of
American Thought Daniel T. Carrigg and James A. Morone Ch. 44John Rawls's
"Democratic" Theory of Justice David Lewis Schaefer Ch. 45Henry Kissinger:
The Challenge of Statesmanship in Liberal Democracy Peter Josephson Ch.
46Irving Kristol and the Reinvigoration of Bourgeois Republicanism Laurence
D. Cooper Ch. 47The Jurisprudence of William Joseph Brennan, Jr., and
Thurgood Marshall Bradley C. S. Watson Ch. 48Ronald Reagan: Statesman and
Original Political Thinker Steven F. Hayward Ch. 49The Textualist
Jurisprudence of Antonin Scalia Ralph A. Rossum Ch. 50"Yes, We Can": The
Progressive Political Thought of Barack Obama Jeffrey Sikkenga Index About
the Contributors