Contributor
Frost, Bryan-Paul, 1961- editor.
Edition Statement:Second edition.
ImprintLanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2019]
Descriptionxii, 947 pages ; 26 cm
Note:Part one. From Colony to Nation (1608-1776) -- 1. John Winthrop, John Cotton, and Nathaniel Niles: The Basic Principles of Puritan Political Thought / Michael J. Rosano -- 2. Thomas Hutchinson and James Otis on Sovereignty, Obedience, and Rebellion / Howard L. Lubert -- 3. Thomas Paine: The American Radical / John C. Koritansky -- 4. Benjamin Franklin: A Model American and an American Model / Steven Forde -- Part two. The New Republic (1776-1820) -- 5. Liberty, Constitutionalism, and Moderation: George Washington's Harmonizing of Traditions / Paul O. Carrese -- 6. John Adams and the Republic of Laws / Richard Samuelson -- 7. Legitimate Government, Religion, and Education: The Political Philosophy of Thomas Jefferson / Aristide Tessitore -- 8. The Political Science of James Madison / Michael P. Zuckert -- 9. Alexander Hamilton on the Grand Strategy of Free Government / Karl-Friedrich Walling -- 10. America's Modernity: James Wilson on Natural Law and Natural Rights / Eduardo A. Velasquez -- 11. Anti-Federalist Political Thought: Brutus and The Federal Farmer / Murray Dry -- 12. The New Constitutionalism of Publius / James R. Stoner Jr. -- 13. Union, Constitutionalism, and the Judicial Defense of Rights: John Marshall / Matthew J. Franck -- Part three. A Divided Nation (1820-1865) -- 14. John Quincy Adams on Principle and Practice / David Tucker -- 15. Union and Liberty: The Political Thought of Daniel Webster / Sean Mattie -- 16. Henry Clay and the Statesmanship of Compromise / Kimberly C. Shankman -- 17. For Constitution and Country? John C. Calhoun, American Politics, and the Union / George D. Alecusan -- 18. The Art of the Judge: Justice Joseph Story and the Founders' Constitution / Peter Schotten -- 19. James Fenimore Cooper: Nature and Nature's God / John E. Alvis -- 20. Religion, Nature, and Disobedience in the Thought of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau / Bryan-Paul Frost -- 21. "Proclaim Liberty throughout the Land": Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, and the Abolition of Slavery / Richard S. Ruderman -- 22. Abraham Lincoln: The Moderation of a Democratic Statesman / Steven Kautz -- Part four. Growth of an Empire (1865-1945) -- 23. Walt Whitman and Politics by Other Means / Peter S. Field -- 24. Feminism as an American Project: The Political Thought of Elizabeth Cady Stanton / Melissa S. Williams -- 25. Mark Twain on the American Character / David Foster -- 26. Pricking the Bubble of Utopian Sentiment: The Political Thought of William Graham Sumner / Lance Robinson -- 27. Booker T. Washington and the "Severe American Crucible" / Peter W. Schramm -- 28. Co-workers in the Kingdom of Culture: W. E. B. Du Bois's Vision of Race Synthesis / Jonathan Marks -- 29. Henry Adams and Our Ancient Faith / Christopher Flannery -- 30. Jane Addams as Civic Theorist: Struggling to Reconcile Competing Claims / Jean Bethke Elshtain -- 31. Herbert Croly's Progressive "Liberalism" / Thomas S. Engeman -- 32. Theodore Roosevelt and the Stewardship of the American Presidency / Jean M. Yarbrough -- 33. Woodrow Wilson, the Organic State, and American Republicanism / Ronald J. Pestritto -- 34. The Making of the Modern Supreme Court: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., and Louis D. Brandeis / David F. Forte -- 35. John Dewey's Alternative Liberalism / David Fott -- 36. Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the Second Bill of Rights / Donald R. Brand -- Part five. New Challenges at Home and Abroad (1945-present) -- 37. Ayn Rand: Radical for Capitalism / William R. Thomas -- 38. Walker Percy's American Thomism / Peter Augustine Lawler -- 39. Russell Kirk's Anglo-American Conservatism / James McClellan -- 40. The Two Revolutions of Martin Luther King, Jr. / Peter C. Myers -- 41. Malcolm X: From Apolitical Acolyte to Political Preacher / Lucas E. Morel -- 42. Betty Friedan and Gloria Steinem: The Popular Transformation of American Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century / Daryl McGowan Tress -- 43. "The Secret Heart of America": Lyndon Baines Johnson's Bold Synthesis of American Thought / James A. Morone -- 44. John Rawls's "Democratic" Theory of Justice / David Lewis Schaefer -- 45. Henry Kissinger: The Challenge of Statesmanship in Liberal Democracy / Peter Josephson -- 46. Irving Kristol and the Reinvigoration of Bourgeois Republicanism / Laurence D. Cooper -- 47. The Jurisprudence of William Joseph Brennan, Jr., and Thurgood Marshall / Bradley C. S. Watson -- 48. Ronald Reagan: Statesman and Original Political Thinker / Steven F. Hayward -- 49. The Textualist Jurisprudence of Antonin Scalia / Ralph A. Rossum -- 50. "Yes, We Can": The Progressive Political Thought of Barack Obama / Jeffrey Sikkenga.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Note:Revised and updated, this long-awaited second edition provides a comprehensive introduction to the most important American statesmen, activists, and writers regardless of the historical era or political persuasion.
