American Virtues

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American Virtues

American Virtues written by Jean M. Yarbrough and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Biography & Autobiography categories.

Beginning with the Declaration of Independence, this analysis of Thomas Jefferson's moral and political philosophy focuses exclusively on the full range of moral, civic and intellectual virtues that form the American character.

American Compact

American Compact written by Gary Rosen and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with History categories.

For students of the early American republic, James Madison has long been something of a riddle, the member of the founding generation whose actions and thought most stubbornly resist easy summary. The staunchest of Federalists in the 1780s, Madison would turn on his former allies shortly thereafter, renouncing their expansive nationalism as a threat to the Constitution and to popular government. In a study that combines penetrating textual analysis with deep historical awareness, Gary Rosen stakes out important new ground by showing the philosophical consistency in Madison's long and controversial public life. The key, he argues, is Madison's profound originality as a student of the social compact, the venerable liberal idea into which he introduced several novel, and seemingly illiberal, principles. Foremost among these was the need for founding to be the work of an elite few. For Madison, prior accounts of the social compact, in their eagerness to establish the proper ends of government, provided a hopelessly naive account of its origin. As he saw it, the Federal Convention of 1787 was an opportunity for those of outstanding prudence (understood in its fullest Aristotelian sense) to do for the people what they could not do for themselves. This troublesome reliance on the few was balanced, Rosen contends, by Madison's commitment to republicanism as an end in itself, a conclusion that he likewise drew from the social compact, accommodating the proud political claims that his philosophical predecessors had failed to recognize. Rosen goes on to show how Madison's idiosyncratic understanding of the social compact illuminates his differences not only with Hamilton but with Jefferson as well. Both men, Madison feared, were too ready to resort to original principles in coming to terms with the Constitution, putting at risk the fragile achievement of the founding in their determination to invoke, respectively, the claims of the few and the many. As American Compact persuasively concludes, Madison's ideas on the origin and aims of the Constitution are not just of historical interest. They carry crucial lessons for our own day, and speak directly to current disputes over diversity, constitutional interpretation, the fate of federalism, and the possibilities and limits of American citizenship.

American Illustrated Magazine

American Illustrated Magazine written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1895 with categories.

American Popular Culture

American Popular Culture written by Hans-Jürgen Diller and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985 with Popular culture categories.

The Scotch Irish In America

The Scotch Irish In America written by Scotch-Irish Society of America and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1890 with Scotch-Irish Congress categories.

Projecting Paranoia

Projecting Paranoia written by Ray Pratt and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with History categories.

A wide-ranging and idiosyncratic look at sixty years of politics and film that uncovers how American movies have mirrored and even challenged anxieties and paranoid perceptions embedded in American society since the start of the Cold War. The first book to take a sweeping look at 60 years of film and analyze them thematically.

Lend A Hand

Lend A Hand written by Edward Everett Hale and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1894 with Charities categories.

Between Caesar And Jesus

Between Caesar And Jesus written by George Davis Herron and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1899 with Christian sociology categories.

We A Confession Of Faith For The American People During And After The War

We A Confession Of Faith For The American People During And After The War written by Gerald Stanley Lee and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1916 with World War, 1914-1918 categories.

Bust To Boom

Bust To Boom written by Donald Worster and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with History categories.

In this captivating collection, some of America's best-known documentary photographers provide a valuable glimpse into a tumultuous time. These photographs -- most never before published -- show the faces and emotions of FSA-aided farmers, dust bowl debris and tumbleweeds, failed banks and thriving stockyards, locomotives and Mexican-American railroad workers, oil derricks, wheat country, black cavalry troops, and 4-H Club fairs. Environmental historian Donald Worster provides historical context for these moving pictures.