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Bryan-Paul Frost is endowed professor of political science at the University of Louisiana, Lafayette.
Jeffrey Sikkenga is professor of political science at Ashland University.
Introduction: Alexis de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America
Harvey C. Mansfield and Delba Winthrop
Part One: From Colony To Nation (1608–1776)
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 Jefferson
Aristide 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
Index
About the Contributors
History of American Political Thought is a feast for the mind, a first-rate collection of essays by first-rate scholars. Reaching wide and deep, it brims with insights about the philosophers, poets, novelists. activists, jurists, and political leaders who contributed to the intellectual life of this nation. Rigorous yet readable, this book is bound to become a standard reference about the ideas that undergird American politics. It will be a valuable resource for students and scholars, indeed for anyone with a serious interest in serious political questions.
— John J. Pitney Jr., Roy P. Crocker Professor of American Politics, Claremont McKenna College
Featuring erudite essays of the highest order, this superb collection highlights the richness of the American political tradition, with leading scholars engaging America’s greatest and most important thinkers, jurists, and statesmen. Frost and Sikkenga’s History of American Political Thought is by far the best and most comprehensive volume of its kind, and its updated 2nd edition will no doubt continue to an essential resource for students and researchers.
— Patrick Cain, Lakehead University
This comprehensively encyclopedic set of lively and insightful essays, having become a minor classic over the past fifteen years, is here updated and enlarged in ways that make it an even more essential supplement to all teaching and study of the whole of American political thought.
— Thomas L. Pangle, University of Texas at Austin
This multi authored volume, edited by Frost and Sikkenga, is ‘the best fit’ for how I prefer to approach the study of American political thought in an academic course. In their essays, each author expounds the philosophical orientations and elucidates the main tenets of their notable subject with thoroughly proficient analyses that read much like a high quality narrative. The reader benefits by being shown the important connections between the political ideas of numerous significant figures and the various “isms” that cross the spectrum of political ideology. This new edition gives added value by including extra chapters on the political philosophy of presidents Lyndon Baines Johnson, Ronald Reagan, and Barack Obama.
— Troy Goodale, Tusculum University
This excellent collection has always been the most useful and reliable guide to American political thinkers. Its impressive range has been extended further with new entries on Walt Whitman, LBJ, Ronald Reagan and Barack Obama. In addition, every chapter of the original edition whose author is still alive has been revised and updated, though all of high quality to begin with. The volume has thus succeeded admirably at rendering its first edition obsolete. What were the visions of America that informed not only the Washingtons and Lincolns but the Elizabeth Cady Stantons and William Graham Sumners? Now you’ll know.
— Clifford Orwin, University of Toronto
Bryan-Paul Frost and Jeffrey Sikkenga are to be congratulated for putting together the most thoughtful, comprehensive, and accessible collection on American political thought ever assembled. This volume is a significant improvement over an already wonderful first edition. One learns what the most serious and gifted American Founders, statesmen, writers, jurists, diplomats, publicists, and citizens have thought about what it means to be an American. Here one confronts unity and diversity and the great debates about liberty and equality, religion and politics, the role of the courts, as well as America's role in the world. A feast for reflective citizens and inquiring scholars alike.
— Daniel J. Mahoney, Assumption College
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