The American Political Tradition
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And the Men Who Made it
Richard Hofstadter
overview
A revised edition of the clasic study of American politics from the Founding Fathers to FDR.
contents
1. The Founding Fathers: An Age of Realism
2. Thomas Jefferson: The Aristocrat as Democrat
3. Andrew Jackson and the Rise of Liberal Capitalism
4. John C. Calhoun: The Marx of the Master Class
5. Abraham Lincoln and the Self-Made Myth
6. Wendell Philiips: The Patrician as Agitator
7. The Spoilsmen: An Age of Cynicism
8. William Jennings Bryan: The Democrat as Revivalist
9. Theodore Roosevelt: The Conservative as Progressive
10. Woodrow Wilson: The Conservative as Liberal
11. Herbert Hoover and the Crisis of American Individualism
12. Franklin D. Roosevelt: The Patrician as Opportunist
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