American Political Thought The Philosophic Dimension of American Statesmanship

Name: American Political Thought The Philosophic Dimension of American Statesmanship
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ISBN: 9781412811392

ISBN-10: 1412811392

ISBN-13: 9781412811392

Edition: 3rd 2011

Authors: Morton Grodzins, Richard G. Stevens, Morton Grodzins

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This book focuses on the political thought of American statesmen. These statesmen have had consistent and comprehensive views of the good of the country and their actions have been informed by those views. The editors argue that political life in America has been punctuated by three great crises in its history-the crisis of the Founding, the crisis of the House Divided, and the crisis of the Great Depression. The Second World War was a crisis not just for America but for the whole of Western Civilization and, in the wake of that war, a new crisis arose which came to be called the "Cold War." Just when that gave the appearance of being resolved, the world reached a new juncture, a new…

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List price: $50.95
Edition: 3rd
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 3/30/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 470
Size: 6.69" wide x 9.53" long x 0.94" tall
Weight: 1.386
Language: English



Preface to the Transaction Edition


Preface to the First Edition


Preface to the Second Edition


A Tribute



Introduction



George Washington



Thomas Jefferson



Alexander Hamilton



The Constitutional Convention: Toward a More Perfect UNION



The Federalist



John Marshall



Joseph Story



John C. Calhoun



Roger Taney



Abraham Lincoln



Frederick Douglass



Elihu Root



Woodrow Wilson



Oliver Wendell Holmes



Franklin D. Roosevelt



Felix Frankfurter



Dean Acheson



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