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History of American Political Thought

Bryan-Paul Frost (Anthology Editor) , Jeffrey Sikkenga (Anthology Editor) , John Agresto (Contributor) , John E. Alvis (Contributor) , Donald R. Brand (Contributor) , Paul O. Carrese (Contributor) ,

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History of American Political Thought

Bryan-Paul Frost (Anthology Editor) , Jeffrey Sikkenga (Anthology Editor) , John Agresto (Contributor) , John E. Alvis (Contributor) , Donald R. Brand (Contributor) , Paul O. Carrese (Contributor) ,

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Revised and updated, this long-awaited second edition provides a comprehensive introduction to what the most thoughtful Americans have said about the American experience from the colonial period to the present. The book examines the political thought of the most important American statesmen, activists, and writers across era and ideologies, helping another generation of students, scholars, and citizens to understand more fully the meaning of America.

This new second edition of the book includes new essays on Walt Whitman, Lyndon Baines Johnson, Ronald Reagan, and Barack Obama. Significant revisions and additions have also been made to many of the original essays, increasing the breadth and depth of the collection.

Table of Contents

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 JeffersonAristide 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

Product details

Published 14 Jul 2003
Format Ebook (Epub & Mobi)
Edition 1st
Extent 848
ISBN 9780739155967
Imprint Lexington Books
Series Applications of Political Theory
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Anthology Editor

Bryan-Paul Frost

Anthology Editor

Jeffrey Sikkenga

Jeffrey Sikkenga is professor of political science…

Contributor

John Agresto

Contributor

John E. Alvis

Contributor

Donald R. Brand

Contributor

Paul O. Carrese

Contributor

Murray Dry

Contributor

Steven Forde

Contributor

David Fott

Contributor

David F. Forte

Contributor

David Foster

Contributor

Peter B. Josephson

Peter B. Josephson is professor of politics at Sai…

Contributor

Steven Kautz

Contributor

John Koritansky

Contributor

Jonathan Marks

Contributor

Sean Mattie

Contributor

James McClellan

Contributor

Lucas E. Morel

Contributor

Peter C. Meyers

Contributor

Lance Robinson

Contributor

Ralph A. Rossum

Contributor

Peter Schotten

Contributor

Natalie Taylor

Natalie Taylor is associate professor of political…

Contributor

Daryl M. Tress

Contributor

David Tucker

David Tucker is associate professor in the departm…

Contributor

Bradley C. S. Watson

Bradley C. S. Watson is professor of politics and…

Contributor

Delba Winthrop

Contributor

Michael Zuckert

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