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  • Between Liberty and Stability

    John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and the Enduring Difficulty of Building and Maintaining a Regime

    John Adams's and Thomas Jefferson's political careers spanned the most formidable times of the early republic. They worked together to draft the Declaration of Independence only to become bitter political rivals, serving as the candidates of the first American political parties and competing in the first competitive presidential election. Most accounts of their relationship tend to focus on their ... Leer más

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  • The Great Debate

    Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine, and the Birth of Right and Left

    de Yuval Levin ...
    **An acclaimed portrait of Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine, and the origins of modern conservatism and liberalism“In a Burkean manner, Mr. Levin enriches through wisdom rather than prescription.” —Washington Post**In The Great Debate, Yuval Levin explores the roots of the left/right political divide in America by examining the views of the men who best represented each side at its origin: Edmund Burke ... Leer más

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  • The Idea of America

    Reflections on the Birth of the United States

    **“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 ... Leer más

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  • John Adams and the Fear of American Oligarchy

    de Luke Mayville ...
    Why the American Founding Father feared the political power of the rich―and how his ideas illuminate today's debates about inequality and its consequences."A most timely, valuable, and enlightening book. It shows conclusively that Adams was one of the sharpest critics of oligarchy among the American founders and, indeed, in the history of political thought. The book will generate much-needed ... Leer más

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  • The Roads to Modernity

    The British, French, and American Enlightenments

    In an elegant, eminently readable work, one of our most distinguished intellectual historians gives us a brilliant revisionist history. The Roads to Modernity reclaims the Enlightenment–an extraordinary time bursting with new ideas about human nature, politics, society, and religion--from historians who have downgraded its importance and from scholars who have given preeminence to the ... Leer más

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  • What Is Conservatism?

    de Frank S Meyer ...
    What Is Conservatism? (1964) is a conservative classic—as relevant today as it was half a century ago.Just what is conservatism? Many people are groping for answers, especially as conservatives seem to be retreating into factions—Tea Partiers, traditionalists, libertarians, social conservatives, neoconservatives, and so on. But this illuminating book shows what unites conservatives even as it ... Leer más

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  • Toward Democracy

    The Struggle for Self-Rule in European and American Thought

    In this magnificent and encyclopedic overview, James T. Kloppenberg presents the history of democracy from the perspective of those who struggled to envision and achieve it. The story of democracy remains one without an ending, a dynamic of progress and regress that continues to our own day. In the classical age "democracy" was seen as the failure rather than the ideal of good governance. ... Leer más

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  • Citizenship and the Origins of Women's History in the United States

    Series series Democracy, Citizenship, and Constitutionalism
    Women's history emerged as a genre in the waning years of the eighteenth century, a period during which concepts of nationhood and a sense of belonging expanded throughout European nations and the young American republic. Early women's histories had criticized the economic practices, intellectual abilities, and political behavior of women while emphasizing the importance of female domesticity in ... Leer más

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  • Inventing a Christian America

    The Myth of the Religious Founding

    Among the most enduring themes in American history is the idea that the United States was founded as a Christian nation. A pervasive narrative in everything from school textbooks to political commentary, it is central to the way in which many Americans perceive the historical legacy of their nation. Yet, as Steven K. Green shows in this illuminating new book, it is little more than a myth. In ... Leer más

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  • The Political Theory of the American Founding

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    This book provides a complete overview of the American Founders' political theory, covering natural rights, natural law, state of nature, social compact, consent, and the policy implications of these ideas. The book is intended as a response to the current scholarly consensus, which holds that the Founders' political thought is best understood as an amalgam of liberalism, republicanism, and ... Leer más

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  • American Reformers, 1815–1860

    A revised edition of the "clear, readable, and persuasive account of [antebellum reform movements'] important impact on American society" (James M. McPherson, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Battle Cry of Freedom).For this new edition of American Reformers 1815-1860, Ronald G. Walters has amplified and updated his exploration of the fervent and diverse outburst of reform energy that shaped ... Leer más

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  • Invisible Sovereign

    Imagining Public Opinion from the Revolution to Reconstruction

    Series series New Studies in American Intellectual and Cultural History
    This history of early American political thought examines the emergence, evolution, and manipulation of public opinion.In the early American republic, the concept of public opinion was a recent—and ambiguous—invention. While appearing to promise a new style of democratic politics, the concept was also invoked to limit self-rule, cement traditional prejudices, stall deliberation, and marginalize ... Leer más

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