Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 278
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Trim: 6½ x 9¾
978-0-7425-6074-1 • Hardback • April 2009 • $104.00 • (£80.00)
978-0-7425-6618-7 • eBook • April 2009 • $98.50 • (£76.00)
Will Morrisey is the William and Patricia LaMothe Chair in the American Constitution and Associate Professor of Political Science at Hillsdale College. He is also author of Self-Government, The American Theme (Lexington Books, 2004).
Chapter 1 Preface: Self-Government in America
Chapter 2 Introduction: What Progressivism Is, and Is Not
Chapter 3 1. Theodore Roosevelt
Chapter 4 2. William Howard Taft
Chapter 5 3. Woodrow Wilson
Chapter 6 Conclusion: Self-Government, The Progressivist Dilemma
7 Bibliography
Will Morrisey is one of the most penetrating students of statesmanship and political philosophy writing today. This learned and wise book continues his exploration of the meaning—and fate—of self-government in the American political tradition and in the western democratic world as whole. It shows exactly what is at stake in the contemporary displacement of natural rights by an amorphous 'historical consciousness' as well as the difficulty of sustaining self-government in a world dominated bureaucratic statism.
— Daniel J. Mahoney, Assumption College
Well-written volume....Recommended.
— CHOICE, January 2010
Consumers of high political philosophy will find this book stimulating.
— Claremont Review of Books
In this philosophically informed study of the political thought of Roosevelt, Taft, and Wilson, Will Morrisey provides a fair-minded critique of the challenge to American anti-statist constitutionalism posed by progressive reformers and intellectuals in the early twentieth century. Morrisey's lucid and penetrating account elevates the study of the origins of the modern liberal state to a new level of historical insight and understanding.
— Herman Belz, University of Maryland