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Challenges to the American Founding: Slavery, Historicism, and Progressivism in the Nineteenth Century
Contributor(s): Pestritto, Ronald J. (Editor), West, Thomas G. (Editor), Alvis, John (Contribution by)
ISBN: 0739108727     ISBN-13: 9780739108727
Publisher: Lexington Books
OUR PRICE:   $55.43  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: December 2004
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Annotation: American politics in the twentieth century and beyond represents a sharp departure from the political vision of the American founders. This volume looks to the roots of this departure in the political ideas of nineteenth-century America, where the first substantial challenges to the founders' thought arose.
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BISAC Categories:
- Law | Constitutional
- Philosophy | Political
Dewey: 320.01
LCCN: 2004014507
Physical Information: 0.91" H x 6.66" W x 9.08" (1.01 lbs) 314 pages
 
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Ronald J. Pestritto's and Thomas G. West's earlier volume The American Founding and the Social Compact addressed the nature of the thought and philosophy of the men who shaped the American founding. In this second volume in a trilogy, Pestritto and West examine the fate of the founders' principles in the nine teeth century, when these principles faced their first great challenges. Support of slavery, culminating in secession and civil war, came from the South; and after the war came positivism, relativism, and radical egalitarianism, which originated in Europe and infiltrated American universities, where intellectuals repudiated the founders' views as historically obsolete and insufficiently concerned with true human liberation. In ten chapters covering major thinkers in nineteenth-century American political thought, contributors discuss the rise and resolution of ideological conflicts in the early generations of the American republic. In Challenges to the American Founding Pestritto and West have compiled an invaluable resource for the roots of the twentieth-century departure in American politics from the political vision of the American founders.