The American Political Tradition

Author : Richard Hofstadter
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307809668
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The American Political Tradition written by Richard Hofstadter and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-12-21 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The American Political Tradition is one of the most influential and widely read historical volumes of our time. First published in 1948, its elegance, passion, and iconoclastic erudition laid the groundwork for a totally new understanding of the American past. By writing a "kind of intellectual history of the assumptions behind American politics," Richard Hofstadter changed the way Americans understand the relationship between power and ideas in their national experience. Like only a handful of American historians before him—Frederick Jackson Turner and Charles A. Beard are examples—Hofstadter was able to articulate, in a single work, a historical vision that inspired and shaped an entire generation.

Author : Richard Hofstadter
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0679723153
Total Pages : 562 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The American Political Tradition written by Richard Hofstadter and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1989-04-23 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The American Political Tradition is one of the most influential and widely read historical volumes of our time. First published in 1948, its elegance, passion, and iconoclastic erudition laid the groundwork for a totally new understanding of the American past. By writing a "kind of intellectual history of the assumptions behind American politics," Richard Hofstadter changed the way Americans understand the relationship between power and ideas in their national experience. Like only a handful of American historians before him—Frederick Jackson Turner and Charles A. Beard are examples—Hofstadter was able to articulate, in a single work, a historical vision that inspired and shaped an entire generation.

Author : Richard Hofstadter
Publisher : Alfred A. Knopf
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The American Political Tradition and the Men who Made it written by Richard Hofstadter and published by Alfred A. Knopf. This book was released on 1973 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published: New York: Knopf, 1948.

Author : Willmoore Kendall
Publisher : CUA Press
ISBN 13 : 0813208262
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Basic Symbols of the American Political Tradition written by Willmoore Kendall and published by CUA Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This reprinted classic on political theory challenges core tenets of our political views derived from the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights.

Author : Randall B. Woods
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521010009
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Vietnam and the American Political Tradition written by Randall B. Woods and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-02-24 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Table of contents

Author : Jean M. Yarbrough
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
ISBN 13 : 0700619682
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Theodore Roosevelt and the American Political Tradition written by Jean M. Yarbrough and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2014-01-31 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rough Rider, hunter, trust-buster, president, and Bull Moose candidate. Biographers have long fastened on TR as man of action, while largely ignoring his political thought. Now, in time for the centennial of his Progressive run for the presidency, Jean Yarbrough provides a searching examination of TR's political thought, especially in relation to the ideas of Washington, Hamilton, and Lincoln--the statesmen TR claimed most to admire. Yarbrough sets out not only to explore Roosevelt's vision for America but also to consider what his political ideas have meant for republican self-government. She praises TR for his fighting spirit, his love of country, and efforts to promote republican greatness, but faults him for departing from the political principles of the more nationalistic Founders he esteemed. With the benefit of hindsight, she argues that the progressive policies he came to embrace have over time undermined the very qualities Roosevelt regarded as essential to civic life. In particular, the social welfare policies he championed have eroded industry and self-reliance; the expansion of the regulatory state has multiplied the special interests seeking access to political power; and the bureaucratic experts in whom he reposed such confidence have all too often turned out to be neither disinterested nor effective. Yarbrough argues that TR's early historical studies—inspired by Darwinian biology and Hegelian political thought—treated westward expansion from an evolutionary and developmental perspective that placed race and conquest at the center of the narrative, while relegating individual rights and consent of the governed to the sidelines. Although his early career showed him to be a moderate Republican reformer, Yarbrough argues that even then he did not share Hamilton's enthusiasm for the commercial republic, and substituted an appeal to "abstract duty" for The Federalist's reliance on self-interest. As New York governor and first-term president, TR attempted to strike a "just balance" between democratic and oligarchic interests, but by the end of his presidency he had tipped the balance in favor of progressive policies. From the New Nationalism until his death in 1919, Roosevelt continued to claim the mantle of Washington and Lincoln, even as he moved further from their political principles. Through careful examination of TR's political thought, Yarbrough's book sheds new light on his place in the American political tradition, while enhancing our understanding of the roots of progressivism and its transformation of the founders' Constitution.

Author : Gary L. Gregg
Publisher : Intercollegiate Studies Institute
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Patriot Sage written by Gary L. Gregg and published by Intercollegiate Studies Institute. This book was released on 1999 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This illustrated volume commemorates the life and legacy of America's Founding Father by bringing noteworthy scholars and authors together for a timely and topical consideration of Washington's enduring importance.

Author : Richard Hofstadter
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307388441
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Paranoid Style in American Politics written by Richard Hofstadter and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2008-06-10 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This timely reissue of Richard Hofstadter's classic work on the fringe groups that influence American electoral politics offers an invaluable perspective on contemporary domestic affairs.In The Paranoid Style in American Politics, acclaimed historian Richard Hofstadter examines the competing forces in American political discourse and how fringe groups can influence — and derail — the larger agendas of a political party. He investigates the politics of the irrational, shedding light on how the behavior of individuals can seem out of proportion with actual political issues, and how such behavior impacts larger groups. With such other classic essays as “Free Silver and the Mind of 'Coin' Harvey” and “What Happened to the Antitrust Movement?, ” The Paranoid Style in American Politics remains both a seminal text of political history and a vital analysis of the ways in which political groups function in the United States.

Author : Richard Hofstadter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The American Political Tradition written by Richard Hofstadter and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Lucy G. Barber
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520931203
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Marching on Washington written by Lucy G. Barber and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-09-01 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Jacob Coxey's army marched into Washington, D.C., in 1894, observers didn't know what to make of this concerted effort by citizens to use the capital for national public protest. By 1971, however, when thousands marched to protest the war in Vietnam, what had once been outside the political order had become an American political norm. Lucy G. Barber's lively, erudite history explains just how this tactic achieved its transformation from unacceptable to legitimate. Barber shows how such highly visible events contributed to the development of a broader and more inclusive view of citizenship and transformed the capital from the exclusive domain of politicians and officials into a national stage for Americans to participate directly in national politics.