American Political Thought
Series editors: Jeremy D. Bailey and Susan McWilliams Barndt
Founding series editors: Wilson Carey McWilliams and Lance BanningThe American Political Thought series consists of comparatively short, authoritative books on major thinkers, movements, themes, schools of thought, and institutions.
For more information about the series, please contact: David Congdon, Senior Editor: dcongdon@ku.edu.
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Lyman Trumbull and the Second Founding of the United States
Price: $44.95
Pub Date: August 19, 2022
Format: Hardcover
336 Pages
Enduring Liberalism
American Political Thought Since the 1960s
With a New Foreword by Jefferson Decker
Price: $29.95
Pub Date: October 29, 2021
Format: Paperback
354 Pages
Fowler interprets the writings of public intellectuals like Robert Bellah, Jean Bethke Elshtain, Michael Walzer, William Bennett, Seymour Martin Lipset, William Galston, and others, as well as survey data of American political attitudes, to spotlight the oft-ignored divide between citizens and high-profile commentators, whose contentious debates are mistakenly assumed to reflect countrywide rifts.
William Howard Taft's Constitutional Progressivism
Price: $40.00
Pub Date: May 26, 2021
Format: Hardcover
248 Pages
How William Howard Taft melded together his constitutional conservatism and his support for progressive public policies.
Daniel Webster and the Unfinished Constitution
Price: $45.00
Pub Date: March 26, 2021
Format: Hardcover
208 Pages
A close study of Webster's analysis of three key constitutional issues during the foundational Early Republic era of US history.
An Anti-Federalist Constitution
The Development of Dissent in the Ratification Debates
Price: $32.50
Pub Date: October 4, 2022
Format: Paperback
536 Pages
The Anti-Federalists may have been the losers in the US Constitution ratification debates, their ideas often dismissed as incoherent or irrelevant, but in fact their arguments took on a life of their own and continue to resonate throughout American history.
Cords of Affection
Constructing Constitutional Union in Early American History
Price: $39.95
Pub Date: January 5, 2022
Format: Hardcover
328 Pages
The first in-depth investigation, beginning in the American Founding, of the efforts to construct and strengthen political attachments, and uncover lessons about constitutional maintenance for our own time.
The Prophet of Harvard Law
James Bradley Thayer and His Legal Legacy
Price: $39.95
Pub Date: September 1, 2022
Format: Hardcover
200 Pages
Democratic Temperament
The Legacy of William James
With a New Preface by the Author
Price: $22.95
Pub Date: October 8, 2021
Format: Paperback
200 Pages
Nineteenth-century psychologist and pragmatist philosopher William James is rarely considered a political theorist. This first book by a political theorist devoted exclusively to James's theory argues that political concerns were in fact central to his intellectual work.
Randolph Bourne and the Politics of Cultural Radicalism
Price: $26.95
Pub Date: October 8, 2021
Format: Paperback
278 Pages
Randolph Bourne (1886-1912) was an essayist and critic most remembered today for his opposition to U.S. military involvement in Europe and his assertion that “war is the health of the state.” In reexamining Bourne’s writings, Vaughan has located the roots of twentieth-century radical thought while repositioning Bourne at the center of debates about the nature and limits of American liberalism.
Henry Adams
The Historian as Political Theorist
Price: $29.95
Pub Date: October 8, 2021
Format: Paperback
328 Pages

Lyman Trumbull and the Second Founding of the United States
Price: $44.95
Pub Date: August 19, 2022
Format: Hardcover
336 Pages
Enduring Liberalism
American Political Thought Since the 1960s
With a New Foreword by Jefferson Decker
Price: $29.95
Pub Date: October 29, 2021
Format: Paperback
354 Pages
Fowler interprets the writings of public intellectuals like Robert Bellah, Jean Bethke Elshtain, Michael Walzer, William Bennett, Seymour Martin Lipset, William Galston, and others, as well as survey data of American political attitudes, to spotlight the oft-ignored divide between citizens and high-profile commentators, whose contentious debates are mistakenly assumed to reflect countrywide rifts.
William Howard Taft's Constitutional Progressivism
Price: $40.00
Pub Date: May 26, 2021
Format: Hardcover
248 Pages
How William Howard Taft melded together his constitutional conservatism and his support for progressive public policies.
Daniel Webster and the Unfinished Constitution
Price: $45.00
Pub Date: March 26, 2021
Format: Hardcover
208 Pages
A close study of Webster's analysis of three key constitutional issues during the foundational Early Republic era of US history.
An Anti-Federalist Constitution
The Development of Dissent in the Ratification Debates
Price: $32.50
Pub Date: October 4, 2022
Format: Paperback
536 Pages
The Anti-Federalists may have been the losers in the US Constitution ratification debates, their ideas often dismissed as incoherent or irrelevant, but in fact their arguments took on a life of their own and continue to resonate throughout American history.
Cords of Affection
Constructing Constitutional Union in Early American History
Price: $39.95
Pub Date: January 5, 2022
Format: Hardcover
328 Pages
The first in-depth investigation, beginning in the American Founding, of the efforts to construct and strengthen political attachments, and uncover lessons about constitutional maintenance for our own time.
The Prophet of Harvard Law
James Bradley Thayer and His Legal Legacy
Price: $39.95
Pub Date: September 1, 2022
Format: Hardcover
200 Pages
Democratic Temperament
The Legacy of William James
With a New Preface by the Author
Price: $22.95
Pub Date: October 8, 2021
Format: Paperback
200 Pages
Nineteenth-century psychologist and pragmatist philosopher William James is rarely considered a political theorist. This first book by a political theorist devoted exclusively to James's theory argues that political concerns were in fact central to his intellectual work.
Randolph Bourne and the Politics of Cultural Radicalism
Price: $26.95
Pub Date: October 8, 2021
Format: Paperback
278 Pages
Randolph Bourne (1886-1912) was an essayist and critic most remembered today for his opposition to U.S. military involvement in Europe and his assertion that “war is the health of the state.” In reexamining Bourne’s writings, Vaughan has located the roots of twentieth-century radical thought while repositioning Bourne at the center of debates about the nature and limits of American liberalism.
Henry Adams
The Historian as Political Theorist
Price: $29.95
Pub Date: October 8, 2021
Format: Paperback
328 Pages