History of American Political Thought (Applications of Political Theory) - Hardcover

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9780739106235: History of American Political Thought (Applications of Political Theory)

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0739106236 ISBN 13: 9780739106235

Publisher: Lexington Books, 2003

Revised and updated, this long-awaited second edition provides a comprehensive introduction to what the most thoughtful Americans have said about the American experience from the colonial period to the present. The book examines the political thought of the most important American statesmen, activists, and writers across era and ideologies, helping another generation of students, scholars, and citizens to understand more fully the meaning of America.

This new second edition of the book includes new essays on Walt Whitman, Lyndon Baines Johnson, Ronald Reagan, and Barack Obama. Significant revisions and additions have also been made to many of the original essays, increasing the breadth and depth of the collection.

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About the Author:

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.

Review:

This collection of forty-five separately authored essays of fifty-five American political thinkers is at once diverse and unified. While this collection establishes a consensual Lockean philosophical founding, this founding, despite its internal tensions, is a philosophically articulate and coherent set of principles that underwrite the American regime of liberty. (Hisory of Political Thought)

Frost and Sikkenga have done a great service for students and teachers of American political thought in editing this massive volume. Highly recommended. (CHOICE)

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