History of American Political Thought

by Frost, Bryan-Paul; Sikkenga, Jeffrey; Agresto, John; Alvis, John E.; Brand, Donald R.; Carrese, Paul O.; Cooper, Laurence D.; Dry, Murray; Elshtain, Jean Bethke; Engeman, Thomas S.; Flannery, Christopher; Forde, Steven; Fott, David; Forte, David F.; Franc

• ISBN13: 9780739106242
• ISBN10: 0739106244
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-06-24
• 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
Introduction: Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America	p. 1
From Colony to Nation (1608-1776)
John Winthrop, John Cotton, and Nathaniel Niles: The Basic Principles of Puritan Political Thought	p. 25
Thomas Hutchinson and James Otis on Sovereignty, Obedience, and Rebellion	p. 44
Thomas Paine: The American Radical	p. 63
Benjamin Franklin: A Model American and an American Model	p. 80
The New Republic (1776-1820)
Liberty, Constitutionalism, and Moderation: The Political Thought of George Washington	p. 95
John Adams and the Republic of Laws	p. 114
Legitimate Government, Religion, and Education: The Political Philosophy of Thomas Jefferson	p. 132
The Political Science of James Madison	p. 149
Alexander Hamilton on the Strategy of American Free Government	p. 167
America's Modernity: James Wilson on Natural Law and Natural Rights	p. 192
Anti-Federalist Political Thought: Brutus and The Federal Farmer	p. 216
The New Constitutionalism of Publius	p. 230
Union, Constitutionalism, and the Judicial Defense of Rights: John Marshall	p. 248
A Divided Nation (1820-1865)
John Quincy Adams on Principle and Practice	p. 271
Union and Liberty: The Political Thought of Daniel Webster	p. 287
Henry Clay and the Statesmanship of Compromise	p. 302
John C. Calhoun and the Reexamination of American Democracy	p. 316
The Art of the Judge: Justice Joseph Story and the Founders' Constitution	p. 325
James Fenimore Cooper: Nature and Nature's God	p. 342
Religion, Nature, and Disobedience in the Thought of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau	p. 355
"Proclaim Liberty throughout the Land": Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, and the Abolition of Slavery	p. 376
Abraham Lincoln: The Moderation of a Democratic Statesman	p. 395
Growth of an Empire (1865-1945)
Feminism as an American Project: The Political Thought of Elizabeth Cady Stanton	p. 419
Mark Twain on the American Character	p. 430
Pricking the Bubble of Utopian Sentiment: The Political Thought of William Graham Sumner	p. 451
Booker T. Washington and the "Severe American Crucible"	p. 464
Co-workers in the Kingdom of Culture: W. E. B. Du Bois's Vision of Race Synthesis	p. 479
Henry Adams and Our Ancient Faith	p. 491
Jane Addams as Civic Theorist: Struggling to Reconcile Competing Claims	p. 504
Herbert Croly's Progressive "Liberalism"	p. 521
Theodore Roosevelt and the Stewardship of the American Presidency	p. 536
Woodrow Wilson, the Organic State, and American Republicanism	p. 549
The Making of the Modern Supreme Court: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., and Louis D. Brandeis	p. 569
John Dewey's Alternative Liberalism	p. 585
Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the Second Bill of Rights	p. 598
New Challenges at Home and Abroad (1945-present)
Ayn Rand: Radical for Capitalism	p. 617
Walker Percy's American Thomism	p. 633
Russell Kirk's Anglo-American Conservatism	p. 646
The Two Revolutions of Martin Luther King, Jr.	p. 666
Malcolm X: From Apolitical Acolyte to Political Preacher	p. 687
Betty Friedan and Gloria Steinem: The Popular Transformation of American Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century	p. 697
John Rawls's "Democratic" Theory of Justice	p. 713
Henry Kissinger: The Challenge of Statesmanship in Liberal Democracy	p. 733
Irving Kristol and the Reinvigoration of Bourgeois Republicanism	p. 754
The Jurisprudence of William Joseph Brennan, Jr., and Thurgood Marshall	p. 772
The Textualist Jurisprudence of Antonin Scalia	p. 787
Index	p. 805
About the Editors and Contributors	p. 825
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