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	Herman Belz \| The "Philosophical Cause" of "Our Free Government and Consequent Prosperity": The Problem of Lincoln's ...
		Thus, his political thought was guided by his understanding of the impulse "to rise in life, to make something of himself through his own honest efforts." In Hofstadter's view, however, a political philosophy grounded in narrow self-interest was not a sound basis for political action because it led Lincoln into contradiction and inconsistency.
		His broad analysis of the nature of American politics follows Jaffa in stating that the American regime was based partly on self-interest and individual rights, partly on virtue and wisdom, but most distinctly on the "permanently radical" principles of the Declaration of Independence.
		Lincoln's strategy is the most important illustration in American history of the "heresthetical art," a term invented by Riker to describe the ability of a politician, through language, reasoning and argument, to alter the dimensions of a political situation and manipulate the outcome to achieve a desired end.
	jala.press.uiuc.edu /10/belz.html (9026 words)

	AMERICAN POLITICS term papers, research papers on AMERICAN POLITICS, essays on AMERICAN POLITICS, Term Papers 2000, ...
		Examines the necessity of the institutionalization of the 'sage' in American political discourse.
		This paper attempts to analyse to what extent the American presidency is restrained in terms of political power by the Constitution and the principle of separation of power, appealing to Charles Jones' interpretation of the U.S. political system as a separated system of government.
		It it is clear that the American presidency has progressively gained in political leadership and the paper also discusses in which ways the modern presidency has tried to impose the image of a presidential dominance on the U.S. political system.
	www.termpapers2000.com /lib/essay/American-Politics.html/?a=link1 (2831 words)

	Amazon.ca: The American Political Tradition: and the Men Who Made It: Books: Richard Hofstadter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		"American Political Tradition" became an immediate milestone in the field of American political study, propelling author Richard Hofstadter to the frontal ranks of historians at the age of 32 upon its publication in 1948.
		Hofstadter does not discount its impact, but cites the pragmatic necessity of studious compromise involving the interests of important American sociological groups which were often disparate, such as the manufacturing interests of the north and the rural farming interests of the south, as well as slavery and anti-slavery interests.
		As this version of American history unfolds, we're treated to a kind of grand conspiracy theory whereby the leaders of the Left turn out to be wolves in sheep's clothing, secretly supporting the system and channeling discontent back into heterodoxy.
	www.amazon.ca /American-Political-Tradition-Who-Made/dp/0679723153 (1781 words)

	Spirit of the age - The Boston Globe
		RICHARD HOFSTADTER'S ``The American Political Tradition," originally published in 1948 when the author was 32, still sells 10,000 copies a year-an astonishing figure, especially for an essay collection lacking an overarching theme.
		When Hofstadter, in ``Anti-Intellectualism in American Life" (1963) and then ``The Paranoid Style in American Politics," traced a direct line from the Know Nothing party of the 1850s to modern McCarthyite conservatives he earned himself the abiding enmity of the right.
		His criticism of the populist tradition led some historians on the left to brand him a neoconservative, in an early use of the term.
	www.boston.com /ae/books/articles/2006/05/28/spirit_of_the_age/?p1=email_to_a_friend (756 words)

	Willmoore Kendall, George Wescott Carey: The Basic Symbols of the American Political Tradition - Bøger
		Willmoore Kendall's classic work, The Basic Symbols of the American Political Tradition, provides an understanding which can only be described as refreshing of the political and cultural tradition out of which the Philadelphia Constitution was forged, and The United States of America was founded.
		This single volume of political science and historical inquiry handily challenges the traditional orthodoxy, or the ignorance, that surrounds the founding in a novel manner: by a close inspection of the facts, and more importantly, the application of the analytical method-the hermeneutic-of Erik Voegelin, to the facts.
		Today, the two incompatible traditions are still with us and their friction is at the root of much of our present day political discord; so much so that to ask and seek the answer to the question, "What is the tradition amongst us?" is the very reason why Basic Symbols was written.
	www.totaltiorden.dk /shop/product_details.php/0813208262 (1126 words)

	The Willmoore Kendall Site
		Kendall's Vanderbilt Lectures is the major work in which he tries to understand what the American political tradition actually is. By examining these lectures, this thesis will try to understand the role Kendall gave to the principle of equality in the American political tradition.
		With this basic assumption (that the American political tradition is a liberal one) radical developments, such as socialism and radical egalitarianism are logical developments of the American political heritage.
		The "current pundits" who are the enemies of the American political tradition desire us to despise our past, to look at it with disgust and horror, as a tradition of suppression, superstition, and ignorance.
	members.tripod.com /~batesca/kendall.htm (2011 words)

	American Political Tradition
		The colors used in the shield are the same as those in the flag: alternating red and white for the important balance between innocence and valor, topped by the blue of "vigilance, perseverance and justice." The eagle’s talons hold symbols of Congress’ power to make peace (the olive branch) and war (arrows).
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	www.kipnotes.com /AmerPolTradition.htm (9684 words)

	Excerpt From The American Leadership Tradition : Moral Vision from Washington to Clinton by Marvin Olasky - ...
		His book The American Political Tradition, and the Men Who Made It, published in 1948, became a standard text for a generation of college history courses, and won a general readership as well.
		A half century later Americans have a "keen feeling of insecurity" at least as great as that of 1948, but the causes are different.
		The American Leadership Tradition is intended to be provocative; the research has increased my esteem for several of those often classified as "great," but it has also forced me to refuse to polish the brass on some other statues.
	www.leadershipnow.com /leadershop/3449-9excerpt.html (1272 words)

	Southern Culture and History
		Tariffs of one variety or another, a staple of American politics during his political career, were the most dangerous by-product of the government's involvement in the economic sphere.
		Calhoun's political theory was based on a recognition of the value of a free exchange of goods, a republican notion of political liberty, and the need for social restraint.
		In all of American political thought, no major thinker was less inclined to the excesses of European romanticism than Calhoun, with the possible exception of John Adams.
	www.lsinstitute.org /Calhoun.htm (5591 words)

	Richard Hofstadter: The American Political Tradition: And the Men Who Made it (Vintage) - Bøger
		The classic story of American History, as told by Richard Hofstadter, has rightly come to be thought of as a masterpiece of American history since its original publication in 1948.
		The book's purpose is twofold: first, to delegitimize the historic American Left by portraying all of the nation's history as a mere argument on the margins of what was actually a broad conservative consensus; second, to pave the way for a new Left by painting that consensus as ideologically bankrupt.
		It would be amusing if Hofstadter and his ilk had not proceeded to do so much harm with their abandonment of American values and traditions and their eager embrace of a centralized planned economy.
	www.totaltiorden.dk /shop/product_details.php/0679723153 (1573 words)

	Roelofs charisma
		In the light of these distinctions, the American President, in his role as spokesman of the nation defined in Hebraic, Biblical terms, can be seen as deeply involved in the primary, legitimating side of the political process.
		Yet this, given the general character of the American political system, is what Presidents are compelled to try in order to translate their national legitimating efforts into practical courses of political action.
		Among the most obvious are the absence of a sustained tradition of principled, consistent executive management, the frustration of ambition and action, and a deep-seated propensity built into the office toward vacuous, disconnected, and irresponsible rhetoric whose intent often seems more to mystify and deceive than to inform and lead.
	spot.colorado.edu /~mcguire/charisma.htm (6400 words)

	The American Political Tradition
		Tocqueville was all too aware of American democracy's shortcomings (some of which sound uncannily up-to-date)--the venality and ignorance of public officials, the tendency toward conformism, the danger that demagogues could use democracy to climb to power.
		Rather than a gift from benevolent political leaders or the culmination of the immanent logic of the Revolution and Constitution, democracy was born in struggle, its advance contested, its achievements always fragile and sometimes reversible.
		American history is marked by waves of immigrants--from Germans in the eighteenth century to Mexicans in the twenty-first--and by nativist backlashes against them.
	www.thenation.com /doc/20051031/foner (1032 words)

	Free Trade and the American Political Tradition - Mises Institute
		Politics, and in particular that most concentrated form of politics -- war, have muddled its meaning.
		The tradition was based on a hard-nosed understanding of the nature of power and a devotion of federalism and local control.
		Second, politically it was contrary to the free trade sentiments of the Old South, and it subverted Southern rights of political self-determination and was, therefore, a violation of the original federal compact.
	www.mises.org /story/1780 (3709 words)

	Commentary Magazine - The American Political Tradition, by Richard Hofstadter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		...Since the beginning of this century, the works of J. Allen Smith, Charles A. Beard, and V. Parrington have popularized the notion that American politics could be explained in terms of a rather simple Manichean conflict enshrined in the two-party system and based on the conflict of interests between capitalists and agrarians...
		...That accounts for the omission from this volume of such important makers of the American political tradition as George Washington and John Marshall who established the roles of the executive and judicial agencies...
		...On the contrary, he deals with American politics as the expression of a continuous tradition to which all the leading figures conform to a greater or lesser degree...
	www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V8I1P108-1.htm (808 words)

	The Biblical origins of American Political Philosophy
		The United States of America was not born in a vacuum nor did it emerge from a single spasm of political or social reaction.
		(see Development of Western Political Thought) Although the Magna Carta (1215) is considered by many scholars to be first written acknowledgement of the principles which would appear later in our U.S. Constitution, this author's research has led him to conclude that the written origins predate the Magna Charta by at least three thousand years.
		John Locke (1632-1704), an English Philosopher, Physician, Historian and Political Scientist wrote that, in a "state of nature," (without any artificial institutions such as government) men would reasonably acquiesce to the institution of some government in order to avoid self-destruction.
	www.lawandliberty.org /history1.htm (2344 words)

	The American Political Tradition
		Generations of American statesmen have pushed and prodded history this way and that.
		"What distinguishes Americans from citizens of past empires," writes Kinzer, "is their eagerness to persuade themselves that they are acting out of humanitarian motives." But Kinzer recognizes this as poppycock; like any great power, the United States has set its policy according to self-interest.
		As experienced by Muslims, the American Century was marked by imperialism and intervention, manipulation and betrayal, Israel and oil.
	www.thenation.com /doc/20060717/bacevich/3 (1024 words)

	The Basic Symbols of the American Political Tradition
		When it was first published twenty-five years ago, this classic work of political theory gained notoriety because neither its approach nor its interpretations readily fit into any of the major schools of thought dealing with the American political tradition.
		This new tradition, set forth by Lincoln in his Gettysburg Address, holds that our fundamental political ideas are derived from the Bill of Rights and the "all men are created equal" clause of the Declaration of Independence.
		He is the author of numerous works in the field of American political theory, including In Defense of the Constitution and The Federalist: Design for a Constitutional Republic.
	cuapress.cua.edu /books/viewbook.cfm?Book=KEBS (428 words)

	List of literature on political science - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Hofstadter, Richard -- The American Political Tradition, The Paranoid Style in American Politics, The Age of Reform
		The Globalization of World Politics: An Introduction to International Relations -- Baylis, John and Smith, Steve
		The Paranoid Style in American Politics, by Richard Hofstadter
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_literature_on_political_science (151 words)

	H-Net Review: Scott D. Gerber on The Other Founders: Anti-Federalism and the Dissenting Tradition in ...
		Cornell writes: "In contrast to the approach of traditional political or constitutional history, I have concentrated on how this evolving tradition was shaped by a constantly shifting set of texts that defined what Anti-Federalism meant at various moments.
		To be fair, though, it is important to emphasize that, just as lawyers and political scientists can learn from historians such as Cornell, so too can historians learn from their colleagues in law schools and political science departments.
		In my judgment, it is only by exploring the political philosophy of the Declaration, and its impact on America's history, that we can truly come to grips with the "American political tradition."[4] Indeed, many of the Anti-Federalists -- the very subjects of Cornell's book -- emphasized this fact.
	www.h-net.org /reviews/showrev.cgi?path=32573960309626 (1452 words)

	INSIDE Chico State: Theorists Smith and Zuckert Argue Nature of Liberal Tradition
		Both are, according to Zuckert, “apologists for liberalism” and “multiple traditions kinds of guys,” agreeing that the American experience has been shaped by multiple political traditions, including liberal democracy.
		“This is indeed a striking claim,” Zuckert declared, “taking the wind out of the sails of traditional American claims to openness and universalism.” Denial of female suffrage, slavery, virtual extermination of a native population, and other “warts and blemishes” of the American political experience, he agreed, are incongruities in a liberal democratic society.
		Smith and Zuckert’s visit was sponsored by the Associated Students, the political science department, the College of Behavioral and Social Sciences, the Office of the Provost, Pi Sigma Alpha national political science honor society, and the Notre Dame Club of Chico.
	www.csuchico.edu /pub/inside/archive/03_05_01/03_theorists.html (735 words)

	The American Political Tradition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Chapter 4, on John C. Calhoun, is a fascinating and somewhat controversial examination that should allow students to explore the mindset of antebellum Southerners and their attempts to preserve a slave-holding culture.
		The thesis, that American political thought always has existed within the framework of a common set of intellectual assumptions, could serve as a launching point for a discussion of the existence, or a lack thereof, of a distinctive political identity in the United States.
		The American Political Tradition is a challenging book, in that it assumes a working knowledge of American history, and perhaps would not serve as a stand-alone text.
	www.orange.k12.oh.us:16080 /teachers/ohs/Tjordan/pages/apt.html (534 words)

	American Political Tradition Revised (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		For more than a half a century, The American Political Tradition and the Men Who Made It has been a widely used textbook in both college and high school advanced placement courses.
		For instance, he notes that The American Political Tradition’s “enduring success—over 200,000 copies sold in its first half century in print—attests to its author’s impressive ability to communicate intellectual history to a general audience.” But in one of the most liberal cities in America, I could find only one copy of this “successful” book.
		“In Hofstadter’s case, The American Political Tradition proved to be a remarkable example of scholarship that appealed to both the professors and the public,” Brown writes.
	www.campusreportonline.net /main/printer_friendly.php?id=1209 (568 words)

	Library & Archives of New Hampshire's Political Tradition - Upcoming Events (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Its educational activities promote engagement in the political process and ensure that the Primary tradition be preserved.
		The New Hampshire Political Library is a "must-stop" on the New Hampshire presidential primary campaign trail, not only for public events and photo opportunities, but also to ensure that the legacy of every presidential campaign is preserved in our collection for future students and participants in the political process.
		Politics and Eggs: Michael Chaney with Congressman Dick Gephardt and Senator John Edwards in September of 2003.
	www.politicallibrary.org /latest-news-and-events.htm (1179 words)

	The American Political Tradition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		When it comes to foreign policy, the fundamental divide in American politics today is not between left and right but between those who subscribe to the myth of the "American Century" and those who do not.
		The real Niebuhr worried less about Americans demonstrating their moral superiority than about whether they would forgo temptations of moral irresponsibility.
		Today, when in Beinart's estimate "U.S. military and economic influence knows few bounds," he believes it is incumbent upon policy-makers to redouble American efforts to spread the blessings of freedom and equality across the Muslim world.
	www.commondreams.org /cgi-bin/print.cgi?file=/views06/0628-29.htm (1852 words)

	The American Political Tradition and Abortion by Dennis Teti (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The American Political Tradition and Abortion by Dennis Teti
		What follows from this is that a society ordered by principles of natural rights, whether its political powers are federated or national, must rest on an agreement or consensus as to who is the subject of those rights.
		That is probably the major reason why, unlike the slavery question, the conflict over abortion has led to scattered violence and not so far to a new civil war.
	www.ashbrook.org /publicat/onprin/v3n5/teti.html (1464 words)

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