American Political Thought. Ken Kersch

      

CONTENTS

      1  Cover

      2  Dedication

      3  Title Page

      4  Copyright

      5  Acknowledgments

      6  1 Themes and Frameworks in American Political Thought The Traditional Framing: Lockean Liberalism, Civic Republicanism, and the Liberal–Republican Debate Complications and Refinements: Other Liberalisms, Other Republicanisms, and Other Thought Traditions Theories Positing the Inadequacy of the Traditional Frameworks and Proposing Alternatives Stories About America Conclusion Questions Notes

      7  2 Settlement, the Road to Revolution, the Founding, and the Early Republic The Theological Dimensions of Colonial American Thought Race and Indigeneity during the Settlement and the Road to Revolution The American Revolution and the Founding Hamiltonian and Jeffersonian Visions Conclusion Questions Notes

      8  3 Antebellum Political Thought Jacksonian Democracy The Whig Vision and “the American System” Majority Rule and Minority Rights The Sovereign Individual Anti-Materialism and Nature The Call of Moral and Social Reform An “Empire of Liberty”? Labor: Work and Slavery Conclusion Questions Notes

      9  4 Secession/Civil War/Reconstruction Race, Slavery, and Natural Rights Slavery and Union A New Birth of Freedom? Equality and Union after Slavery Conclusion Questions Notes

      10  5 Industrial Capitalism, Reformism, and the New American State Restraining Government: The Philosophy of Laissez-Faire Conservative Critics of Industrial Capitalism and Liberal Modernity Reformist and Revolutionary Critics of Industrial Capitalism: Ideas Ideas in Action From Pragmatism to Progressivism Pragmatism in Politics and Government The New Pluralism: Ethnicity, Nationality, and Race Sex and Gender Conclusion Questions Notes

      11  6 The New Deal Liberal Order: Collapse, Culmination, or “Great Exception”? The New Deal The Fate of the Individual in a Mass Polity Who Governs? The Liberal Consensus Outliers in Franklin Roosevelt’s America: The “Radical Right,” Marxian Left, and Marginalized African-Americans Rumbling Undercurrents Conclusion Questions Notes

      12  7 Radical Stirrings, Civil Rights, the Contentious 1960s, and the Rise of Modern Conservatism Mass Conformity: The Diagnosis and the Rebels Postwar Conservatism’s Political Rise Conservative Political Thought Civil Rights Resistance Black Nationalism The New Left The Full Flowering: The Late 1960s Counterculture Conclusion