Description: (NOTE: Each chapter ends with Discussion Questions). 1. Introduction. 2. The Colonial Legacy. John Winthrop, A Modell of Christian Charity. Anne Hutchinson, Statement of Mistress Anne Hutchinson. Roger Williams, The Bloudy Tenent of Persecution. 3. The Pamphlet War. Jonathan Mayhew, Concerning Unlimited Submission and Nonresistence to the Higher Powers. James Otis, Of the Political and Civil Rights of the British Colonists. Martin Howard, Jr., A Letter from a Gentleman at Halifax. Thomas Paine, Thoughts on the Present State of American Affairs. Abigail Adams, Abigail Adam''s Letter to John Adams, March 31, 1776. 4. Formation of the Nation. John Jay, The Federalist No. 2. James Madison, The Federalist No. 10. Alexander Hamilton, The Federalist No. 21. James Madison, The Federalist No. 51. Alexander Hamilton, The Federalist No. 84. Edmund Randolph, A Letter of His Excellency Edmund Randolph, Esquire, on the Federal Constitution. Robert Yates, Essays of Brutus, Letter I. Robert Yates, Essays of Brutus, Letter II. 5. Jacksonian and Intellectual Democracy. John L. O''Sullivan, Introduction. Alexis de Tocqueville, The Sovereignty of the People in America. Ralph Waldo Emerson, Politics. Henry D. Thoreau, Civil Disobedience. 6. Defining the Union. William Lloyd Garrison, Perspectives of the Liberator, Volume VIII. Frederick Douglass, Lecture on Slavery, No. 1. Frederick Douglass, Lecture on Slavery, No. 2. Abraham Lincoln, Speech at Peoria, Illinois. John C. Calhoun, A Disquisition on Government. George Fitzhugh, The Universal Trade. 7. Triumphant Democracy. William G. Sumner, Consolidation of Wealth; Economic Aspects. William Lawrence, The Relation of Wealth to Morals. Andrew Carnegie, Wealth. 8. The Age of Change. Edward Bellamy, Excerpt from Looking Backward, 2000-1887. Lyman Trumball, Speech at a Populist Meeting. William Jennings Bryan, Speech Concluding Debate on the Chicago Platform. Woodrow Wilson, The Government and Business. Anna H. Shaw, Equal Suffrage--A Problem of Political Justice. George W. Kirchwey, Pax Americana. Randolph Bourne, Conscience and Intelligence in War. 9. Democratic and Economic Crisis. John Dewey, Renascent Liberalism. Franklin D. Roosevelt, New Conditions Impose New Requirements upon Government and Those Who Conduct Government. Lawrence Dennis, State Absolutism. 10. American Internationalism and the Domestic Threat. Alger Hiss, First Appearance Before the Committee, August 5, 1948. Whittaker Chambers, Letter of April 6, 1954. Whittaker Chambers, Letter of August 5, 1954. Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., What Is Loyalty? A Difficult Question. Howard M. Jones, Do You Know the Nature of an Oath? 11. Individual Rights and Liberties Redefined. Martin Luther King, Jr., Letter from Birmingham Jail, April 16, 1953. Stokely Carmichael, Toward Black Liberation. Betty Friedan, The Problem That Has No Name. bell hooks, The Significance of Feminist Movement. bell hooks, Feminist Revolution: Development through Struggle. 12. The Continuing Debate. Dorothy Ross, Against Canons: Liberating the Social Sciences. Thomas Sowell, A World View of Cultural Diversity. Philip Green, The Future of Equality. Douglass C. North, Private Property and the American Way. James Q. Wilson, The Contradictions of an Advanced Capitalist State. Bibliography. Index.

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