A Better Guide Than Reason: Federalists and Anti-Federalists

ISBN-13: 9780138736880 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 240 str.

Bradford, M.E.

Opis

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

Spis treści

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

O autorze

M.E. Bradford