The Learning of Liberty

Lorraine Smith Pangle, Thomas L Pangle

• Paperback | Engels | American Political Thought
• American schools are in a state of crisis. At the root of our current perplexity, beneath the difficulties with funding, social problems, and low test... Lees meer

John Locke's Two Treatises of Gov

Edward J. Harpham

• Hardcover | Engels | American Political Thought
• The past thirty years have witnessed a renaissance in Lockean scholarship. New work and new thinking has now recast our most basic comprehension of Jo... Lees meer

Randolph Bourne and the Politics of Cultural Radicalism

Lesie J Vaughan

• Paperback | Engels | American Political Thought
• In the "little rebellion" that swept New York's Greenwich Village before World War I, few figures stood out more than Randolph Bourne. Hunchbacked and... Lees meer

American Burke

Greg Weiner

• Paperback | Engels | American Political Thought
• Daniel Patrick Moynihan (1927-2003) may be best known as a statesman. He served in the administrations of presidents Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, and Ford... Lees meer

Dark Side of the Left

Richard J Ellis

• Paperback | Engels | American Political Thought
• Why do people who identify themselves as liberal or egalitarian sometimes embrace intolerance or even preach violence? Illiberalism has come to be exp... Lees meer

Benjamin Franklin Unmasked

Jerry Weinberger

• Hardcover | Engels | American Political Thought
• Moral paragon, public servant, founding father; scoundrel, opportunist, womanizing phony: There are many Benjamin Franklins. Now, as we celebrate the ... Lees meer

Henry Adams

James P Young

• Paperback | Engels | American Political Thought
• Henry Adams has been a neglected figure in recent years. The Education of Henry Adams is widely accepted as a classic of American letters, but his oth... Lees meer

The Idea of Presidential Representation

Jeremy D Bailey

• Hardcover | Engels | American Political Thought
• Does the president represent the entire nation? Or does he speak for core partisans and narrow constituencies? The Federalist Papers , the electoral c... Lees meer

Redeeming Democracy in America

Wilson Carey McWilliams

• Hardcover | Engels | American Political Thought
• Wherever we turn in America today, we see angry citizens disparaging government, distrusting each other, avoiding civic life, and professing a hatred ... Lees meer

Theodore Roosevelt, the Progressive Party, and the Transformation of American Democracy

Sidney M Milkis

• Paperback | Engels | American Political Thought
• Led by Theodore Roosevelt, the Progressive Party made the 1912 campaign a passionate contest for the soul of the American people. Promoting an ambitio... Lees meer

Wendell Berry and the Agrarian Tradition

Kimberly K Smith

• Paperback | Engels | American Political Thought
• Farmer and conservationist Wendell Berry has published more than thirty books, making his name a household word among environmentalists. From his Kent... Lees meer

The Constitution's Penman

Dennis C Rasmussen

• Hardcover | Engels | American Political Thought
• Strikingly few Americans know who wrote the Constitution. Even fewer know that he was a peg-legged ladies' man with a wicked sense of humor, a staunch... Lees meer

George Washington and American Constitutionalism (Revised)

Glenn A Phelps

• Paperback | Engels | American Political Thought
• Known as the Father of His Country, George Washington is viewed as a demigod for what he was and did, not what he thought. In addition to being a popu... Lees meer

Republican Empire

Karl-Friedrich Walling

• Hardcover | Engels | American Political Thought
• The republics of Greece and Rome proved incapable of waging war effectively and remaining free at the same time. The record of modern republics is not... Lees meer

Framed for Posterity

Ralph Ketcham

• Hardcover | Engels | American Political Thought
• In Marbury v. Madison Chief Justice John Marshall defined the Constitution as "a superior, paramount law," one that superseded the laws passed by Cong... Lees meer

The Great Chief Justice

Charles F Hobson

• Paperback | Engels | American Political Thought
• John Marshall remains one of the towering figures in the landscape of American law. From the Revolution to the age of Jackson, he played a critical ro... Lees meer

Patriot Fires

Melinda Lawson

• Hardcover | Engels | American Political Thought
• The Civil War is often credited with giving birth to the modern American state. The demands of warfare led to the centralization of business and indus... Lees meer

Abraham Lincoln and Liberal Democracy

• Hardcover | Engels | American Political Thought
• Though Abraham Lincoln was not a political philosopher per se, in word and in deed he did grapple with many of the most pressing and timeless question... Lees meer

Henry Adams

James P Young

• Hardcover | Engels | American Political Thought
• Henry Adams has been a neglected figure in recent years. The Education of Henry Adams is widely accepted as a classic of American letters, but his oth... Lees meer

Religious Beliefs of America's Founders

Gregg L Frazer

• Paperback | Engels | American Political Thought
• Were America's Founders Christians or deists? Conservatives and secularists have taken each position respectively, mustering evidence to insist just h... Lees meer

Two Cities

Daniel S Malachuk

• Hardcover | Engels | American Political Thought
• Since the late eighteenth century the ideals of political democracy and individual flourishing have become so entangled that most people no longer dif... Lees meer

Alexander Hamilton and the Persistence of Myth

Stephen F Knott

• Paperback | Engels | American Political Thought
• Alexander Hamilton and the Persistence of Myth explores the shifting reputation of our most controversial founding father. Since the day Aaron Burr fi... Lees meer

Conceiving a New Republic

Charles W Calhoun

• Hardcover | Engels | American Political Thought
• During the late nineteenth century, Republicans struggled to reinvent America in the wake of civil war-and were consumed by the question of how the So... Lees meer

Dance with Community

Robert Booth Fowler

• Paperback | Engels | American Political Thought
• Contemporary intellectuals have rushed to embrace the concept of "community." What does this tell us about American political thought? Why are intelle... Lees meer