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The Other Souls of Black Folk: George Washington Woodbey and the Spirit of Socialism 黑人的其他灵魂：乔治·华盛顿·伍德贝与社会主义精神

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American Political Thought Pub Date : 2023-06-01 DOI: 10.1086/725851

K. Roy

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:A Political Economy of Justice 《正义的政治经济学》

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American Political Thought Pub Date : 2023-06-01 DOI: 10.1086/725845

Brandon Davis

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Small-Town Life and Difference 小镇生活与差异

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American Political Thought Pub Date : 2023-06-01 DOI: 10.1086/725852

Elly Long

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:Lyman Trumbull and the Second Founding of the United States :莱曼·特朗布尔和美国的第二次建国

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American Political Thought Pub Date : 2023-06-01 DOI: 10.1086/725849

I. Wurman

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:The Death of Learning: How American Education Has Failed Our Students and What to Do about It 《学习之死:美国教育如何让我们的学生失望以及如何应对》

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American Political Thought Pub Date : 2023-06-01 DOI: 10.1086/725854

B. Taylor

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:Cords of Affection: Constructing Constitutional Union in Early American History 情感之绳：美国早期宪政联盟的构建

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American Political Thought Pub Date : 2023-06-01 DOI: 10.1086/725847

Stuart A. Streichler

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Harry Jaffa and the Idea That All Men Are Created Equal 哈利·雅法和“人人生而平等”的思想

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American Political Thought Pub Date : 2023-03-01 DOI: 10.1086/724489

J. Dyer

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Jaffa’s Douglas 雅法的道格拉斯

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American Political Thought Pub Date : 2023-03-01 DOI: 10.1086/724495

Jeremy D. Bailey

{"title":"Jaffa’s Douglas","authors":"Jeremy D. Bailey","doi":"10.1086/724495","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/724495","url":null,"abstract":"In my view, Harry V. Jaffa’sCrisis of the House Divided is the most important work of scholarship published in the field of American political thought. The greatness of the book has to do, first, with its discovery of Abraham Lincoln as a serious political thinker and, second, with its positioning Lincoln as a founder superior to the founders of 1776, including even Thomas Jefferson. The latter project required a study of the principles of Jefferson and the other founders in their own right, and Jaffa’s book includes passages that add up to perhaps the best study in that regard too. Chapters 9 and 14 are the sections I have in mind. But the greatness of Jaffa’sCrisis also lies in two other less discussed qualities of the book. One is a mastery of historical context that is rare to find in what would otherwise be a book of political theory. Jaffa likely undertook the work to master the material because he saw this not as a work of political theory or political philosophy but rather as a study of statesmanship. In order to evaluate Lincoln’s statesmanship, Jaffa believed that his reader must be able to understand Lincoln’s choices as Lincoln saw them, which is to say that Jaffa had to make an otherwise obscure history available to his reader. But in order to make this history available, Jaffa had tomaster it. Perhaps historians of the periodwill disagree, but from my vantage point in 2022, the book is a humbling reminder ofwhat intellectual history can and should be. To put it differently, Jaffa’sCrisis demonstrates that scholars working in the history of political thought can do political theory and history at the same time.","PeriodicalId":41928,"journal":{"name":"American Political Thought","volume":"12 1","pages":"182 - 191"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45946423","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Harry, Lincoln, and Me 哈利、林肯和我

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American Political Thought Pub Date : 2023-03-01 DOI: 10.1086/724493

Steven R. B. Smith

{"title":"Harry, Lincoln, and Me","authors":"Steven R. B. Smith","doi":"10.1086/724493","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1086/724493","url":null,"abstract":"to say the least. My interests had been—and to some degree still are—in the great tradition of European political philosophy, to which I condescendingly regarded the American contribution as something of an afterthought. This attitude began to change when I took Nathan Tarcov’s class on the American political founding, where we read the classic exchanges between Federalists and Anti-Federalists, as well as key documents of the revolutionary period. It was in this class where I was also introduced to Bernard Bailyn’s The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution (1967), Gordon Wood’s The Creation of the American Republic (1969), and Edmund Morgan’s The Birth of the Republic (1977), which for the first time opened my eyes to the philosophic sources of the American Revolution in radical English Whig political theory. At around the same time, I read John Pocock’s magisterial, albeit flawed, TheMachiavellian Moment (1975), which sought to put the American founding period in the long history of republican self-government going back to Machiavelli and before him to Polybius and Aristotle. Suddenly what had previously seemed to me something of an intellectual backwater had become a key moment in the revival of the great tradition of classical republicanism. Shortly thereafter, I was privileged to study with David Greenstone—of blessed memory—in whose class we read Louis Hartz’s The Liberal Tradition in America (1955). Here I learned that it was the philosophy of John Locke that formed the philosophic core of American history and that helped to explain why America—at least in the height of the Cold War—seemed uniquely immune to the radical ideologies of both the Left and the Right that had been the legacy of European politics. This to me was a powerful insight and one that","PeriodicalId":41928,"journal":{"name":"American Political Thought","volume":"12 1","pages":"244 - 255"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45280347","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The Promise of Equality in Lincoln and in Jaffa 林肯和雅法的平等承诺

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American Political Thought Pub Date : 2023-03-01 DOI: 10.1086/724456

John Burt

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