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  • American Conservatism, 1900-1930

    A Reader

    Edited by Johnathan O'Neill, Joseph Postell ...
    This book presents the most significant speeches and writings of American constitutional conservatives during the period 1900-1930. Figures such as William Howard Taft, Calvin Coolidge, Elihu Root, Warren Harding, and David Jayne Hill present the alternative arguments that challenged the leading Progressive views of the period. Issues such as natural rights, civil rights, economic regulation, ... Read more

    $121.99 USD

  • Bureaucracy in America

    The Administrative State's Challenge to Constitutional Government

    by Joseph Postell ...
    Series series Studies in Constitutional Democracy
    The rise of the administrative state is the most significant political development in American politics over the past century. While our Constitution separates powers into three branches, and requires that the laws are made by elected representatives in the Congress, today most policies are made by unelected officials in agencies where legislative, executive, and judicial powers are combined. This ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Rediscovering Political Economy

    by Bruce Caldwell, Samuel Hollander, Peter McNamara, Larry Schweikart, Richard Wagner, Thomas G. West, Alan Levine, John Mueller, Robert A. Sirico, Bradley C. S. Watson0 ...
    The recent economic crisis in the United States has highlighted a crisis of understanding. In this volume, Bradley C. S. Watson and Joseph Postell bring together some of America's most eminent thinkers on political economy-an increasingly overlooked field wherein political ideas and economic theories mutually inform each other. Only through a restoration of political economy can we reconnect ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

  • American Citizenship and Constitutionalism in Principle and Practice

    Edited by Joseph Postell, Steven F. Pittz ...
    Series series Studies in American Constitutional Heritage
    Questions at the very heart of the American experiment—about what the nation is and who its people are—have lately assumed a new, even violent urgency. As the most fundamental aspects of American citizenship and constitutionalism come under ever more powerful pressure, and as the nation’s politics increasingly give way to divisive, partisan extremes, this book responds to the critical political ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Freedom and the Rule of Law

    by Edward Whelan, Jeremy Rabkin, Joyce Lee Malcolm, Katharine Inglis Butler, Louis Fisher, V James Strickler, Joseph Postell, Bradley C.S. Watson, Ralph A. Rossum ...
    Freedom and the Rule of Law takes a critical look at the historical beginnings of law in the United States, and how that history has influenced current trends regarding law and freedom. Anthony Peacock has compiled articles that examine the relationship between freedom and the rule of law in America. Although this is a theme that has been a perennial one since America's founding, it is also one of ... Read more

    $121.49 USD

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  • American Dialogue

    The Founders and Us

    by Joseph J. Ellis ...
    The award-winning author of Founding Brothers and The Quartet now gives us a deeply insightful examination of the relevance of the views of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and John Adams to some of the most divisive issues in America today.The story of history is a ceaseless conversation between past and present, and in American Dialogue Joseph J. Ellis focuses the conversation ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • Birth of a White Nation

    The Invention of White People and Its Relevance Today

    by Jacqueline Battalora ...
    Birth of a White Nation is a fascinating new book on race in America that begins with an exploration of the moment in time when "white people,” as a separate and distinct group of humanity, were invented through legislation and the enactment of laws. The book provides a thorough examination of the underlying reasons as well as the ways in which “white people” were created. It also explains how the ... Read more

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  • Original Meanings

    Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

    by Jack N. Rakove ...
    PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • From abortion to same-sex marriage, today's most urgent political debates will hinge on this two-part question: What did the United States Constitution originally mean and who now understands its meaning best? Rakove chronicles the Constitution from inception to ratification and, in doing so, traces its complex weave of ideology and interest, showing how this document has ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Idea of America

    Reflections on the Birth of the United States

    by Gordon S. Wood ...
    **“Exceptional... a remarkable study of the key chapter of American history and its ongoing influence on American character.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)The Pulitzer Prize-winning historian of the Founding Era reflects on the birth of American nationhood and explains why the American Revolution remains so essential to our identity and culture.**For Gordon S. Wood, the American Revolution is ... Read more

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  • The Bill of Rights: Creation and Reconstruction

    by Professor Akhil Reed Amar ...
    Are the deep insights of Hugo Black, William Brennan, and Felix Frankfurter that have defined our cherished Bill of Rights fatally flawed? With meticulous historical scholarship and elegant legal interpretation a leading scholar of Constitutional law boldly answers yes as he explodes conventional wisdom about the first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution in this incisive new account of our ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • White Supremacy : A Comparative Study of American and South African History

    by George M. Fredrickson ...

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  • Empire of the People

    Settler Colonialism and the Foundations of Modern Democratic Thought

    by Adam Dahl ...
    Series series American Political Thought
    American democracy owes its origins to the colonial settlement of North America by Europeans. Since the birth of the republic, observers such as Alexis de Tocqueville and J. Hector St. John de Crèvecœur have emphasized how American democratic identity arose out of the distinct pattern by which English settlers colonized the New World. Empire of the People explores a new way of understanding this ... Read more

    $21.59 USD