American ideas; source readings in the intellectual history of the United States.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Grob, Gerald N., 1931-2015 (Editor), Beck, Robert N. (Robert Nelson), 1924-1980 (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: [New York] Free Press of Glencoe [1963]
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Table of Contents:
  • V.1; Foundations (1629-1865)
  • The puritan as a religious type; Samuel Willard, John Cotton, Jonathan Edwards
  • The beginnings of the American political theory; John Winthrop, John Cotton, Nathaniel Ward, Roger Williams, John Wise
  • Puritanism and capitalism; John Winthrop, Cotton Mather, Jonathan Mitchell
  • Reason and Science in puritan thought; Charles Chauncy, New England first fruits, Cotton Mather, John Winthrop, Jr.
  • Foundations of a literary tradition; John Winthrop, Edwards Johnson, Cotton Mather, Michael Wigglesworth, Anne Bradstreet
  • Reason and benevolence; Benjamin Franklin, John Witherspoon, Thomas Jefferson, Elihu Palmer
  • Liberal Religion and the theory of freedom; Jonathan Mayhew, Thomas Paine, Ethan Allen, James Madison, John Carroll, Virginia Statute of Religious Liberty, Benjamin Franklin
  • Of men and government; James Otis, Samuel Adams, Massachusettensis, The Virginia Bill of Rights, The Declaration of Independence, Thomas Paine, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, George Mason and James Iredell
  • Progress and the trust in science; Cadwallader Colden, David Ramsey
  • The Enlightenment; Charles Backus, Joel Barlow
  • An American Nationalism; Thomas Jefferson, Noah Webster, James Monroe, James Fenimore Cooper, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Joseph Story
  • The rise of the common man; Kent--Sanford debates, Andrew Jackson, Timothy Flint, George Bancroft, Walt Whitman
  • American liberal capitalism; Alexander Hamilton, Daniel Raymond, Roger Brooke Taney, William Leggett
  • American revivalism; Timothy Dwight, Charles G. Finney, Peter Cartwright
  • Progress, reform, and utopia; Horace Mann, William Lloyd Garrison, Timothy Dwight Weld, Samuel Gridley Howe, Albert Brisbane, Margaret Fuller, Wendell Phillips
  • The mind of the south; John C. Calhoun, George Fitzhugh, William Gilmore Simms.
  • V.2; Dilemmas of maturity (1865-1962)
  • Evolution and the rise of naturalism; Lewis Henry Morgan, Frederick Jackson Turner, Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., John Dewey, John B. Watson
  • Pragmatism: an American philosophical adventure; Charles S. Peirce, William James, John Dewey, Roscoe Pound
  • American individualism and the ideology of the self--made man; William Graham Sumner, Andrew Lawrence, Elihu Root
  • The American as reformer; Henry George, Lester Frank Ward, Henry Demarest Lloyd, Thorstein Veblen, Lincoln Steffens, Herbert Croly, Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Walter Weyl
  • The liberal challenge to Evangelical Protestantism; Dwight L. Moody, William A (Billy) Sunday, Theodore T. Munger, Walter Rauschenbusch, Edward S. Ames
  • Shaking of the foundations; Madison Grant, Henry Adams, Ralph Adams Cram, Charles A. Beard, Karl Llewellyn, Thurman Arnold, David Riesman
  • Voices of discontent; Charles E. Coughlin, John Dos Passos, Lawrence Dennis, Twelve southerners, Earl Browder
  • The response of the churches; Reinhold Niebuhr, William F. (Billy) Graham, William J. Kenealy, Will Herberg, Walter Kaufmann
  • The conservative stance; Peter Viereck, Clarence B. Randall, Russell Kirk, Walter Lippmann, Friedrich A. von Hayek
  • The restatement of liberalism; Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Lewis Mumford, Carl L. Becker, Sidney Hook, Morris Raphael Cohen, Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., B.F. Skinner, Morton White, Richard Hofstadter, Daniel Bell.