Redeeming American Political Thought (Paper) : Essays on American Political Thought

Foreword vii Dennis F. Thompson Part 1 American Thinkers Alexander Hamilton and the Language of Political Science 3(11) A Friendship 14(14) Hawthorne in Utopia 28(21) Emerson and the Inhibitions of Democracy 49(16) An Education for America: Tocqueville, Hawthorne, Emerson 65(15) The Education of Henry Adams 80(11) Henry Adams Redeeming American Political Theory 91(20) Part 2 American Distinctiveness Positive Liberty, Negative Liberty in the United States Translated from the French 111(16) Stanley Hoffmann The Boundaries of Democracy 127(19) The American Idea of Aristocracy 146(12) A New Constitution for a New Nation 158(13) Democracy and the Past: Jefferson and His Heirs 171(16) Democratic Customs 187(12) Index 199