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From colony to nation (1608-1776); John Winthrop, John Cotton andNathaniel Niles - the basic principles of puritan political thought; ThomasHutchinson and James Otis on sovereignty, obedience and rebellion; ThomasPaine - the American radial; Benjamin Franklin - a model American and anAmerican model; the new republic (1776-1820); liberty, constitutionalism andmoderation - the political thought of George Washington; John Adams and therepublic of laws; legitimate government, religion and education - thepolitical philosophy of Thomas Jefferson; the political science of JamesMadison; Alexander Hamilton on the strategy of American free government;America's modernity - James Wilson on natural law and natural rights;anti-federalist political thought - Brutus and federal farmer; the newconstitutionalism of publius; union, constitutionalism and the judicialdefense of rights - John Marshall; a divided nation (1820-1865); John QuincyAdams on principle and practice; union and liberty - the political thought ofDaniel Webster; Henry Clay and the statesmanship of compromise; John C.Calhoun and reexamination of American democracy; the art of the judge -Justice Joseph Story and the founder's constitution; James Fenimore Cooper -nature and nature's god; religion, nature and disobedience in the thought ofRalph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau; "proclaim liberty throughout theland" - Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison and the abolition ofslavery; Abraham Lincoln - the moderation of a Democratic statesman; growthof an empire (1865-1945); feminism as an American project - the politicalthought of Elizabeth Cady Stanton; Mark Twain on the American character;pricking the bubble of Utopian sentiment - the political thought of WilliamGraham Summer; Booker T. Washington and the "severe American crucible";co-workers in the kingdom of culture - W.E.B. du Bois's vision of racesynthesis; Henry Adams and our ancient faith; Jane Adams as civic theorist -struggling to reconcile competing claims; Herbert Croly's progressive"liberalism"; Theodore Roosevelt and the stewardship of the Americanpresidency; Woodrow Wilson, the organic state and American republicanism; themaking of the modern Supreme Court - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., and Louis D.Brandeis; John Dewey's alternative liberalism; Franklin Delano Roosevelt andthe Second Bill of Rights; new challenges at home and abroad (1956-present);Ayn Rand - radical for capitalism; Walker Percy's American Thomism; thepolitical thought of Russell Kirk; the two revolutions of Martin Luther King,Jr.; Malcolm X - from apolitical acolyte to political preacher; Betty Friedanand Gloria Steinem - the popular transformation of American feminism in thelate twentieth century; John Rawl's "Democratic" theory of justice; HenryKissinger - the challenge of statesmanship in Liberal Democracy; IrvingKristol and the reinvigoration of bourgeois Republicanism. (Part contents).