History of American Political Thought

by Frost, Bryan-Paul; Sikkenga, Jeffrey

• ISBN13: 9780739106235
• ISBN10: 0739106236
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-10-01
• Publisher: Lexington Books

Summary

This book is a collection of secondary essays on America's most important philosophic thinkers--statesmen, judges, writers, educators, and activists--from the colonial period to the present. Each essay is a comprehensive introduction to the thought of a noted American on the fundamental meaning of the American regime.

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments	xi
Bryan-Paul Frost and Jeffrey Sikkenga
Introduction: Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America	1	(24)
Harvey C. Mansfield and Delba Winthrop
PART ONE: FROM COLONY TO NATION (1608-1776)
1 John Winthrop, John Cotton, and Nathaniel Niles: The Basic Principles of Puritan Political Thought	25	(19)
Michael J. Rosano
2 Thomas Hutchinson and James Otis on Sovereignty, Obedience, and Rebellion	44	(19)
Howard L. Lubert
3 Thomas Paine: The American Radical	63	(17)
John Koritansky
4 Benjamin Franklin: A Model American and an American Model	80	(15)
Steven Forde
PART TWO: THE NEW REPUBLIC (1776-1820)
5 Liberty, Constitutionalism, and Moderation: The Political Thought of George Washington	95	(19)
Paul O. Carrese
6 John Adams and the Republic of Laws	114	(18)
Richard Samuelson
7 Legitimate Government, Religion, and Education: The Political Philosophy of Thomas Jefferson	132	(17)
Aristide Tessitore
8 The Political Science of James Madison	149	(12)
Michael P. Zuckert
9 Alexander Hamilton on the Strategy of American Free Government	161	(31)
Karl-Friedrich Walling
10 America's Modernity: James Wilson on Natural Law and Natural Rights	192	(24)
Eduardo A. Velasquez
11 Anti-Federalist Political Thought: Brutus and The Federal Farmer	216	(14)
Murray Dry
12 The New Constitutionalism of Publius	230	(18)
James R. Stonen, Jr.
13 Union, Constitutionalism, and the Judicial Defense of Rights: John Marshall	248	(23)
Matthew J. Franck
PART THREE: A DIVIDED NATION (1820-1865)
14 John Quincy Adams on Principle and Practice	271	(16)
David Tucker
15 Union and Liberty: The Political Thought of Daniel Webster	287	(15)
Sean Mattie
16 Henry Clay and the Statesmanship of Compromise	302	(14)
Kimberly C. Shankman
17 John C. Calhoun and the Reexamination of American Democracy	316	(9)
John Agresto
18 The Art of the Judge: Justice Joseph Story and the Founders' Constitution	325	(17)
Peter Schotten
19 James Fenimore Cooper: Nature and Nature's God	342	(13)
John E. Alvis
20 Religion, Nature, and Disobedience in the Thought of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau	355	(21)
Bryan-Paul Frost
21 "Proclaim Liberty throughout the Land": Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, and the Abolition of Slavery	376	(19)
Richard S. Ruderman
22 Abraham Lincoln: The Moderation of a Democratic Statesman	395	(24)
Steven Kautz
PART FOUR: GROWTH OF AN EMPIRE (1865-1945)
23 Feminism as an American Project: The Political Thought of Elizabeth Cady Stanton	419	(11)
Melissa S. Williams
24 Mark Twain on the American Character	430	(21)
David Foster
25 Pricking the Bubble of Utopian Sentiment: The Political Thought of William Graham Sumner	451	(13)
Lance Robinson
26 Booker T. Washington and the "Severe American Crucible"	464	(15)
Peter W. Schramm
27 Co-workers in the Kingdom of Culture: W.E.B. Du Bois's Vision of Race Synthesis	479	(12)
Jonathan Marks
28 Henry Adams and Our Ancient Faith	491	(13)
Christopher Flannery
29 Jane Addams as Civic Theorist: Struggling to Reconcile Competing Claims	504	(17)
Jean Bethke Elshtain
30 Herbert Croly's Progressive "Liberalism"	521	(15)
Thomas S. Engeman
31 Theodore Roosevelt and the Stewardship of the American Presidency	536	(13)
Jean M. Yarbrough
32 Woodrow Wilson, the Organic State, and American Republicanism	549	(20)
Ronald J. Pestritte
33 The Making of the Modern Supreme Court: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., and Louis D. Brandeis	569	(16)
David F. Forte
34 John Dewey's Alternative Liberalism	585	(13)
David Fott
35 Franklin Delane Roosevelt and the Second Bill of Rights	598	(19)
Donald R. Brand
PART FIVE: NEW CHALLENGES AT HOME AND ABROAD (1945-present)
36 Ayn Rand: Radical for Capitalism	617	(16)
William Thomas
37 Walker Percy's American Thomism	633	(13)
Peter Augustine Lawler
38 Russell Kirk's Anglo-American Conservatism	646	(20)
James McClellan
39 The Two Revolutions of Martin Luther King, Jr.	666	(21)
Peter C. Myers
40 Malcolm X: From Apolitical Acolyte to Political Preacher	687	(4)
Lucas E. Morel
41 Betty Frielan and Gloria Steinern: The Popular Transformation of American Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century	691	(22)
Natalie Taylor and Daryl McGowan Tress
42 John Rawls's "Democratic" Theory of Justice	713	(20)
David Lewis Schaefer
43 Henry Kissinger: The Challenge of Statesmanship in Liberal Democracy	733	(21)
Peter Josephson
44 Irving Kristol and the Reinvigoration of Bourgeois Republicanism	754	(18)
Laurence D. Cooper
45 The Jurisprudence of William Joseph Brennan, Jr., and Thurgood Marshall	772	(15)
Bradley C.S. Watson
46 The Textualist Jurisprudence of Antonin Scalia	787	(18)
Ralph A. Rossum
Index	805	(20)
About the Editors and Contributors	825