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Title: John Adams and the Spirit of Liberty by C. Bradley Thompson ISBN: 0-7006-1181-9 Publisher: University Press of Kansas Pub. Date: 01 March, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: The Atlas of America
Comment: I just finished reading C. Bradley Thompson's "John Adams and The Spirit of Liberty," and am in awe; not only of John Adams but of Dr. Thompson's masterful explication of Adams' political thought.
I had no idea what a debt of gratitude I owed to one man, John Adams, who more than any other Founding Father developed and provided the intellectual framework that became the Constitution of the United States. At the very least this book should be required reading for any person who is interested in pursuing a career in politics.
To all of you who are interested in understanding the intellectual founding of this country I urge you to read this book. You won't be able to put it down.
And to C. Bradley Thompson, I salute you and thank you for your efforts in resurrecting the reputation and honor of this great man.
Rating: 5
Summary: Award winner-- 1999 best first book in political theory
Comment: John Adams and the Spirit of Liberty as a co-winner of the 1999 Best First Book awad from the Foundaions of Political Theoy section of the American Political Science Associatio. The award citation reads as follows: "In John Adams and the Spirit of Liberty, C. Bradley Thompson offers us a thoughtful and compelling revisionist account of Adams's politics and political theory. Thompson begins by showing how Adams's critical rethinking of Calvinism led him to reject it in favor of a Lockean conception of the problem of liberty, social order and political authority. The question of politics and government, then for Adams, was how to protect the natural liberty and rights to which each freeman is entitled through constitutional arrangements that are the work of philosophy, reason, and free will rather than grounded in tradition and common law. By posing the problem in this fashion, Thompson argues, Adams developed the most systematic science of politics of all early American political thinkers. This science of politics is grounded in Baconian principles of science, the lessons of history, and a science of human nature. From these foundations it is possible to identify the distinctive requirements of modern (vs. classical republicanism) and the imperatives and principles of political architecture. In the process, Thompson demonstrates that Adams's prescription for political life was both complex and original. Rejecting both direct democracy and classical republicanism, Adams opted for a republican constitution that would constrain and elevate the passions excited by commercial society. Indeed, it was Adams's belief that a properly constituted public sphere would help cultivate the kind of modest virtues among citizens that were preferable to the vaunted glory of classical antiquity. In demonstrating the complexity and depth of John Adams's politics and political thought, Bradley Thompson provides us with a cogent argument for reconsidering Adams's place in the Founding period and the relevance of his thought for contemporary politics."
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent and Engaging!
Comment: In the company of Jefferson, Madison, and Washington, John Adams' significant contribution to American political and intellectual life is often overlooked. This well-written, thoroughly engaging text seeks to put Adams in his rightful place among the Founders of our great nation. Professor Thompson provides a thorough analysis of the development of Adams' political thought: his early philosophical and religious thinking, his revolutionary writings (including the brilliant "Novanglus" pamphlets), and the mature thought of Adams the statesman. Readers will finish this book with a profound awareness of the unique philosophical revolution which fueled the American Revolution, and they will come to appreciate that Adams was (like the author) a brilliant mind. As a former student of Thompson's, I thoroughly appreciate this book.
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Title: Crosspoints: A Novel of Choice by Alexandra York ISBN: 1413418953 Publisher: Promenthena Press Pub. Date: 01 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.99 |
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Title: The Enemies of Christopher Columbus by Thomas A. Bowden ISBN: 1889439347 Publisher: Paper Tiger (NJ) Pub. Date: October, 2003 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Essays on Ayn Rand's We the Living by Robert Mayhew ISBN: 0739106988 Publisher: Lexington Books Pub. Date: 28 February, 2004 List Price(USD): $28.95 |
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Title: Heaven on Earth: The Rise and Fall of Socialism by Joshua Muravchik ISBN: 1893554457 Publisher: Encounter Books Pub. Date: 01 March, 2002 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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Title: The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution by Bernard Bailyn ISBN: 0674443020 Publisher: Belknap Press Pub. Date: 01 March, 1992 List Price(USD): $19.50 |
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