History of American Political Thought

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.

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 JeffersonAristide 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