A study of popular politics in the U.S. Presents portraits of its political leaders including Jefferson, Calhoun, Jackson, Theodore Roosevelt, Wilson, Hoover, and FDR.
A study of popular politics in the United States with portraits of its political leaders including Jefferson, Calhoun, Jackson, Theodore Roosevelt, Wilson, Hoover, and FDR.
A collection of documents related to the major political controversies in American history from the Revolutionary War through the end of the Civil War, organized within seven subject areas including revolution and independence, the Constitution, the Jacksonian era, and slavery and expansion.
Seven essays examine the advance of certain streams of political thought in America, including right-wing movements of the 1950s and '60s and earlier responses to industrialism and world power.
Describes the impact of Charles Darwin's scientific writings on the intellectual life of the late nineteenth century, and discusses the use of such Darwinian ideas as "natural selection" and "survival of the fittest," to justify conservative resistance to government efforts to relieve inequality during that period.
