A Better Guide Than Reason - Federalists & Anti-Federalists

Informationen zum Autor M.E. Bradford Klappentext In this seminal volume, M. E. Bradford defines the Old Whig political tradition in American thought, showing that the inheritance of the prescriptive anti-federalists still lives. For Bradford, important elements in our heritage from the American Revolution have been systematically hidden from our view by anachronistic and partisan scholarship Zusammenfassung In this seminal volume, M. E. Bradford defines the Old Whig political tradition in American thought, showing that the inheritance of the prescriptive anti-federalists still lives. For Bradford, important elements in our heritage from the American Revolution have been systematically hidden from our view by anachronistic and partisan scholarship Inhaltsverzeichnis I: ; A Teaching for Republicans: Roman History and the Nation's First Identity; The Heresy of Equality: A Reply to Harry Jaffa; Word From the Forks of the Creek: the Revolution and the Populist Heritage; II: ; A Better Guide than Reason: The Politics of John Dickinson; According to their Genius: Politics and The Example of Patrick Henry; No Master but the Law: The Legacy of William Henry Drayton; III: ; Franklin and Jefferson: The Making and Binding of Self; All to do Over: The Revolutionary Precedent and the Secession of 1861; First Fathers: The Colonial Origins of the Southern Tradition; Lincoln, the Declaration, and Secular Puritanism: A Rhetoric for Continuing Revolution; IV: ; A Proper Patrimony: Russell Kirk and America's Moral Genealogy

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: M. E. Bradford, M. E./ Kirk Bradford, M.E. Bradford, Russell Kirk
• Edition: Transaction Publishers
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre Relié
• Sortie: 01.04.1994
• EAN: 9781560001317
• ISBN: 978-1-56000-131-7
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 241 mm x 19 mm
• Thèmes: Library of Conservative Though; Library of Conservative Thought; Library of Conservative Thought
• Catégories: Sciences humaines, art, musique > Philosophie; Sciences sociales, droit, économie > Sciences politiques > Systèmes politiques; USA, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General, Political structure & processes, United States of America, USA, Political structure and processes