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  • Modern and American Dignity

    Who We Are as Persons, and What That Means for Our Future

    by Peter Augustine Lawler ...
    A Simon & Schuster eBook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every reader. ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • American Political Rhetoric

    Essential Speeches and Writings on Founding Principles and Contemporary Controversies

    Edited by Peter Augustine Lawler, Robert Martin Schaefer, David Ramsey ...
    American Political Rhetoric is the only reader for introductory classes in American politics, government, and political communication designed to explore fundamental political principles through examples of political rhetoric ranging from the founding to today. Now in its eighth edition, its selections include the entire political spectrum and contributors range from our nation's founders to ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • History of American Political Thought

    by Bryan-Paul Frost, Jeffrey Sikkenga, George Alecusan, John E. Alvis, Donald R. Brand, Paul O. Carrese, Daniel T. Carrigg, Laurence D. Cooper, Murray Dry0, Thomas S. Engeman1, Peter S. Field2, Christopher Flannery3, Steven Forde4, David F. Forte5, David Foster6, David Fott7, Matthew J. Franck8, Peter B. Josephson9, Steven Kautz0, John Koritansky1, Harvey C. Mansfield2, Sean Mattie3, Jonathan Marks4, James McClellan5, Peter C. Meyers6, Lance Robinson7, Michael J. Rosano8, Richard S. Ruderman9, Richard Samuelson0, David Lewis Schaefer1, Peter Schotten2, Kimberly C. Shankman3, Natalie Taylor4, Aristide Tessitore5, Eduardo A. Velásquez6, Karl-Friedrich Walling7, Melissa S. Williams8, Jean M. Yarbrough9, Lucas E. Morel0, James R. Stoner Jr.1, Michael Zuckert2, Jean Bethke Elshtain3, Steven F. Hayward4, Peter Augustine Lawler5, James A. Morone6, Ronald J. Pestritto7, William G. Thomas8, Daryl M. Tress9, David Tucker0, Bradley C. S. Watson1 ...
    Revised and updated, this long-awaited second edition provides a comprehensive introduction to what the most thoughtful Americans have said about the American experience from the colonial period to the present. The book examines the political thought of the most important American statesmen, activists, and writers across era and ideologies, helping another generation of students, scholars, and ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Mad Men

    The Death and Redemption of American Democracy

    by Amanda DiPaolo, T. D. Anderson, Matthew Dinan, Dave Snow, John-Paul Spiro, Barry Craig, Peter Augustine Lawler ...
    Series series Politics, Literature, & Film
    For seven seasons, AMC’s Mad Men captivated audiences with the story of Don Draper, an advertising executive whose personal and professional successes and failures took viewers on a roller coaster ride through America’s tumultuous 1960s. More than just a television show about one of advertising’s “bad boys,” the series investigates the principles of the American regime, exploring whether or not ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Postmodernism Rightly Understood

    The Return to Realism in American Thought

    by Peter Augustine Lawler ...
    Series series American Intellectual Culture
    Postmodernism Rightly Understood is a dramatic return to realism-a poetic attempt to attain a true understanding of the capabilities and limitations of the postmodern predicament. Prominent political theorist Peter Augustine Lawler reflects on the flaws of postmodern thought, the futility of pragmatism, and the spiritual emptiness of existentialism. Lawler examines postmodernism by interpreting ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Democracy Reconsidered

    by David Alvis, Martha Bayles, James W. Ceaser, Eric Cohen, Jocelyn Jones Evans, Gayle McKeen, Michael Papazian, David Ramsey, Carl Eric Scott, Paul Seaton, Matthew Sitman, John Seery, Brian A. Smith, Ann Hartle, Joseph M. Knippenberg, Peter Augustine Lawler ...
    Democracy Reconsidered provides an enlightening study of democracy in America's post-modern context. Elizabeth Kaufer Busch and Peter Augustine Lawler explore some of the foundational principles of democracy as they have been borne out in American society. The essays included in this volume examine the lessons that novelists, philosophers, and political theorists have for democratic societies as ... Read more

    $47.79 USD

  • We Hold These Truths

    Catholic Reflections on the American Proposition

    by John Courtney Murray, SJ ...
    Series series A Sheed & Ward Classic
    The 1960 publication of We Hold These Truths marked a significant event in the history of modern American thought. Since that time, Sheed & Ward has kept the book in print and has published several studies of John Courtney Murray's life and work. We are proud to present a new edition of this classic text, which features a comprehensive introduction by Peter Lawler that places Murray in the context ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • A Constitution in Full

    Recovering the Unwritten Foundation of American Liberty

    by Peter Augustine Lawler, Richard M., II Reinsch ...
    Series series American Political Thought
    When political debates devolve, as they often do these days, into a contest between big-government progressivism and natural rights individualism, Americans tend to appeal to the “self-evident” truths inscribed in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. But Peter Lawler and Richard Reinsch remind us that these truths understood in the abstract are untethered from a prior, unwritten ... Read more

    $39.59 USD

  • Science, Virtue, and the Future of Humanity

    by James C. Capretta, J. Daryl Charles, Patrick J. Deneen, William English, Benjamin Hippen, Adam Keiper, Charles T. Rubin, Ari N. Schulman, Benjamin Storey, Ronald Bailey, Marc D. Guerra0, Robert P. Kraynak2, Peter Augustine Lawler3 ...
    Science, Virtue, and the Future of Humanity addresses each of the key public policy issues of our techno-future from the perspective of deeply informed and philosophically inclined public intellectuals. Among the issues addressed are the detachment of our idea of justice from any credible foundation; Tocqueville’s prescience on how a “cognitive elite” might be the aristocracy to be most feared in ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

  • A Political Companion to Walker Percy

    Edited by Peter Augustine Lawler, Brian A. Smith ...
    Series series Political Companions to Great American Authors
    In 1962, Walker Percy (1916–1990) made a dramatic entrance onto the American literary scene when he won the National Book Award for fiction with his first novel, The Moviegoer. A physician, philosopher, and devout Catholic, Percy dedicated his life to understanding the mixed and somewhat contradictory foundations of American life as a situation faced by the wandering and won-dering human soul. His ... Read more

    $16.39 USD

  • Alexis de Tocqueville and the Art of Democratic Statesmanship

    by Derek Barker, Richard Boyd, Paul Carresse, Brian Danoff, Albert W. Dzur, Khalil M. Habib, L. Joseph Hebert Jr., Peter Augustine Lawler, Susan McWilliams Barndt0, Thomas L. Pangle1, William B. Parsons Jr.2, Jon D. Schaff3, F Flagg Taylor IV4, Aristide Tessitore5, Alexis De Tocqueville6, Conor Williams7, Thad Williamson8 ...
    In 1835, Alexis de Tocqueville famously called for 'a new political science' that could address the problems and possibilities of a 'world itself quite new.' For Tocqueville, the democratic world needed not just a new political science but also new arts of statesmanship and leadership. In this volume, Brian Danoff and L. Joseph Hebert, Jr., have brought together a diverse set of essays revealing ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Democracy's Literature

    Politics and Fiction in America

    by Lawrie Balfour, Paul A. Cantor, D.A Hamlin, Pamela K. Jensen, Peter Augustine Lawler, Wilson Carey McWilliams, Dan Sabia, Catherine H. Zuckert ...
    American literature is profoundly, almost inescapably political. America's most thoughtful authors long ago realized that it was through the novel, the novella, and the story that philosophic education of America's citizens would best be undertaken. In this fascinating new anthology of original essays, ten leading scholars explore the ways in which American civic education has been informally ... Read more

    $50.99 USD