A Better Guide Than Reason
Subtitle: Federalists and Anti-federalists
By: M.E. Bradford
Edition: First edition.
Series: The Library of Conservative Thought
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Published: 2017
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 238
ISBN-13: 9781351273688
Subjects: Political science; History; Politics and government; United States; Declaration of Independence (United States)
Description: "In this seminal volume, M.E. Bradford defines the Old Whig political tradition in American thought, showing that the inheritance of the prescriptive anti-federalists still lives. For Bradford, important elements in our heritage from the American Revolution have been systematically hidden from our view by anachronistic and partisan scholarship. He believes that other, more ideological components have been emphasized at the expense of the rest. Here he attempts to return us to our heritage."--Provided by publisher.
Table of contents: title: Chapter Word From the Forks of the Creek: the Revolution and the Populist Heritage  -- M.E. Bradford Russell Kirk; title: chapter A Teaching for Republicans: Roman History and the Nation's First Identity  -- M.E. Bradford Russell Kirk; title: chapter The Heresy of Equality: A Reply to Harry Jaffa  -- M.E. Bradford Russell Kirk; title: chapter No Master but the Law: The Legacy of William Henry Drayton  -- M.E. Bradford Russell Kirk; title: chapter A Better Guide than Reason: The Politics of John Dickinson  -- M.E. Bradford Russell Kirk; title: chapter According to their Genius: Politics and The Example of Patrick Henry  -- M.E. Bradford Russell Kirk; title: chapter Lincoln, the Declaration, and Secular Puritanism: A Rhetoric for Continuing Revolution  -- M.E. Bradford Russell Kirk; title: chapter Franklin and Jefferson: The Making and Binding of Self  -- M.E. Bradford Russell Kirk; title: chapter All to do Over: The Revolutionary Precedent and the Secession of 1861  -- M.E. Bradford Russell Kirk; title: chapter First Fathers: The Colonial Origins of the Southern Tradition  -- M.E. Bradford Russell Kirk; title: chapter A Proper Patrimony: Russell Kirk and America's Moral Genealogy -- M.E. Bradford Russell Kirk.