{"product_id":"american-political-thought-an-invitation-hardback-9781509530328","title":"American Political Thought; An Invitation (Hardback) 9781509530328","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eAmerican Political Thought\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eAn Invitation\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eKen Kersch (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781509530328, Polity Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 26 February 2021\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e272 pages\u003cbr\u003e24.4 x 17.3 x 2.5 cm, 0.658 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Ken Kersch manages to showcase the complexity and diversity of American political thought in a way that students and others will find easy to understand. He helps us understand the American past, realize how that past connects to the present, and imagine the possibilities for an American future. He asks fundamental questions about American politics and then makes it possible for readers to come up with their own informed answers.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSusan McWilliams Barndt, Chair and Professor, Pomona College Politics Department Co-Editor, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Political Thought\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“Scholars and educators have long needed a fresh analysis of the development of American political thought.  Drawing on his deep knowledge of the diversity of American perspectives and experiences, Ken Kersch has met that need.  His account of American political thought as a tradition of contention over who does and who should wield power superbly illuminates America’s past and our deeply contentious present—in ways that can benefit our future.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRogers M. Smith, Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Political Science, University of Pennsylvania\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHow do Americans think about foundational political questions? Covering the full span of U.S. history, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Political Thought: An Invitation\u003c\/i\u003e offers a lively yet sophisticated overview of the nature and dynamics of American Political Thought for students and general readers alike. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAward-winning scholar Ken Kersch’s engaging introduction situates the key debates in their historical, political and cultural context. He introduces the touchstone frameworks and ideas that are both deeply ingrained and yet have been actively re-made in a country that has spent 250 years of shifting circumstances battling over their real-world implications. Covering thinkers ranging from Jefferson to Rawls, Du Bois to Audre Lorde, he examines the ambiguities of the purportedly ‘consensus’ American principles of liberty, equality, and democracy as well as addressing questions ranging from ‘What are the foundations of a legitimate political order?’ and ‘What is the appropriate role of government?’ to ‘What are the appropriate terms of full civic membership ?’ - and beyond. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePolitically balanced and inclusive, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Political Thought\u003c\/i\u003e introduces the contested terrain concerning these core political questions as they were raised over the course of the USA’s often dramatic history.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eAcknowledgments \u003cp\u003e1 Themes and Frameworks in American Political Thought\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Traditional Framing: Lockean Liberalism, Civic Republicanism, and the Liberal–Republican Debate\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eComplications and Refinements: Other Liberalisms, Other Republicanisms, and Other Thought Traditions\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTheories Positing the Inadequacy of the Traditional Frameworks and Proposing Alternatives\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eStories About America\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eQuestions\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Settlement, the Road to Revolution, the Founding, and the Early Republic\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Theological Dimensions of Colonial American Thought\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRace and Indigeneity during the Settlement and the Road to Revolution\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe American Revolution and the Founding\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHamiltonian and Jeffersonian Visions\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eQuestions\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Antebellum Political Thought\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJacksonian Democracy\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Whig Vision and “the American System”\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMajority Rule and Minority Rights\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Sovereign Individual\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnti-Materialism and Nature\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Call of Moral and Social Reform\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAn “Empire of Liberty”?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLabor: Work and Slavery\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eQuestions\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Secession\/Civil War\/Reconstruction\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRace, Slavery, and Natural Rights\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSlavery and Union\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA New Birth of Freedom? Equality and Union after Slavery\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eQuestions\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Industrial Capitalism, Reformism, and the New American State\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRestraining Government: The Philosophy of Laissez-Faire\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConservative Critics of Industrial Capitalism and Liberal Modernity\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReformist and Revolutionary Critics of Industrial Capitalism: Ideas\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIdeas in Action\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom Pragmatism to Progressivism\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePragmatism in Politics and Government\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe New Pluralism: Ethnicity, Nationality, and Race\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSex and Gender\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eQuestions\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 The New Deal Liberal Order: Collapse, Culmination, or “Great Exception”?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe New Deal\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Fate of the Individual in a Mass Polity\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWho Governs? The Liberal Consensus\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOutliers in Franklin Roosevelt’s America: The “Radical Right,” Marxian Left, and Marginalized African-Americans\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRumbling Undercurrents\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eQuestions\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Radical Stirrings, Civil Rights, the Contentious 1960s, and the Rise of Modern Conservatism\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMass Conformity: The Diagnosis and the Rebels\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePostwar Conservatism’s Political Rise\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConservative Political Thought\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCivil Rights Resistance\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBlack Nationalism\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe New Left\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Full Flowering: The Late 1960s Counterculture\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eQuestions\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 The Identity and Post-Materialist Left, the New Right, and Third Way Liberalism\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSex and Gender\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Intervention of Feminist Women of Color\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“Gay Liberation” and the Politics of LGBTQ + Identity\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRacial and Ethnic Identity and Pride: the Chicano and American Indian Movements, and Beyond\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEcology and Environment\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe New Right\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThird Way (Neo)Liberalism\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eQuestions\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBoundaries, Categories, and Intersectionality\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Persisting Problem of the Color Line\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eContemporary Conservatism\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eContemporary Liberalism\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCapitalism, Socialism, and Neoliberalism\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Resurgent American Left\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion: The Futures of American Political Thought\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eQuestions\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Politics \u0026amp; government [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Politics \u0026amp; government\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Politics%20\u0026amp;%20government%20%5BJP%5D%22\"\u003eJP\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Polity","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52441793167640,"sku":"9781509530328","price":45.78,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9781509530328.jpg?v=1785025572","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/american-political-thought-an-invitation-hardback-9781509530328","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}