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Alexander Hamilton: A Biographyby Forrest McDonaldISBN 039330048X (0-393-30048-X)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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The American Presidency: An Intellectual Historyby Forrest McDonaldISBN 0700607498 (0-7006-0749-8)
Softcover, Univ Pr of Kansas
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A Constitutional History of the United Statesby Forrest McDonald , Ellen Shapiro McDonaldISBN 0531054209 (0-531-05420-9)
Hardcover, F. Watts
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Cracker Culture: Celtic Ways in the Old Southby Forrest McDonald , Ellen Shapiro McDonaldISBN 0817304584 (0-8173-0458-4)
Softcover, Univ of Alabama Pr
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An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United Statesby Forrest McDonald , Ellen Shapiro McDonaldISBN 0029024803 (0-02-902480-3)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States'Book summary:In his piercing introduction to An Economic Interpretation the author wrote that whoever leaves economic pressures out of history or out of discussion of public questions is in mortal peril of substituting mythology for reality. It was Beards view that the founding fathers, especially Madison, Jay, and Hamilton, never made such a miscalculation. Indeed, these statesmen placed themselves among the great practitioners of all ages and gave instructions to succeeding generations in the art of government by their vigorous deployment of classical political economy.
In this new printing of a major classic in American historiography, Louis Filler provides a sense of the person behind the book, the background that enabled Beard to move well beyond the shibboleths of the second decade of the twentieth century. While the controversies over Beards book have quieted, the issues which it raised have hardly abated. Indeed, one can say that just about every major work in the politics and economics of the American nation must contend with Beards classic work. Beards work rests on an examination of primary documents: land and slave owners, geographic distribution of money, ownership of public securities, the specific condition of those who were disenfranchised as well as those who were in charge of the nascent American economy.
The great merit of Beards work is that despite its incendiary potential, he himself viewed An Economic Interpretation in coldly analytical terms, seeing such a position as giving comfort to neither revolutionaries nor reactionaries. Attacked by Marxists for being too mechanical, and by conservatives as being blind to the moral purposes of the framers of the constitution, the work continues to exercise a tremendous influence on all concerned. The fact that Beard wrote with a scalpel-like precision that gripped the attention of those in power no less than the common man is, it should be added, no small element in the enduring forces of this work.
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Empire and Nation: Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania Letters from the Federal Farmerby Forrest McDonald , John Dickinson, Richard Henry LeeISBN 0865972036 (0-86597-203-6)
Softcover, Liberty Fund
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Government by Judiciary: The Transformation of the Fourteenth Amendmentby Forrest McDonald , John Dickinson, Richard Henry LeeISBN 0865971447 (0-86597-144-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Government by Judiciary: The Transformation of the Fourteenth Amendment'Book summary:[via]The Justices, who are virtually unaccountable, irremovable, and irreversible, have taken over from the people control of their own destiny.
Raoul Berger
It is the thesis of this monumentally argued book that the United States Supreme Courtlargely through abuses of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitutionhas embarked on "a continuing revision of the Constitution, under the guise of interpretation." Consequently, the Court has subverted America's democratic institutions and wreaked havoc upon Americans' social and political lives.
One of the first constitutional scholars to question the rise of judicial activism in modern times, Raoul Berger points out that "the Supreme Court is not empowered to rewrite the Constitution, that in its transformation of the Fourteenth Amendment it has demonstrably done so. Thereby the Justices, who are virtually unaccountable, irremovable, and irreversible, have taken over from the people control of their own destiny, an awesome exercise of power."
The Court has accomplished this transformation by ignoring or actually distorting the original intent of both the framers and the supporters of the Fourteenth Amendment. In school desegregation and legislative reapportionment cases, for example, the Court manipulated the history, meaning, and purpose of the amendment's Equal Protection Clause in order to achieve a desired political result. In cases involving First Amendment freedoms and the rights of the accused, the judges converted the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause into a vehicle for the nationalization of the Bill of Rights. Yet these actions were nothing less than "usurpations" that robbed "from the States a power that unmistakably was left to them."
This new second edition includes the original text of 1977 and extensive supplementary discourses in which the author assesses and rebuts the responses of his critics.
Raoul Berger retired in 1976 as Charles Warren Senior Fellow in American Legal History, Harvard University.
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Novus Ordo Seclorum: The Intellectual Origins of the Constitutionby Forrest McDonaldISBN 0700603115 (0-7006-0311-5)
Softcover, Univ Pr of Kansas
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Original Intentions: On the Making and Ratification of the United States Constitutionby Forrest McDonaldISBN 0820315214 (0-8203-1521-4)
Hardcover, Univ of Georgia Pr
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The Phaeton Ride: The Crisis of American Successby Forrest McDonaldISBN 0385043058 (0-385-04305-8)
Hardcover, Doubleday
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The Presidency of George Washingtonby Forrest McDonaldISBN 070060359X (0-7006-0359-X)
Softcover, Univ Pr of Kansas
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The book covers the central concerns of Washington's administration: a complex tangle of war debts; the organization of the Bank of the United States; geographical and social factionalism; the emergence of strong national partisan politics; adjustments in federal-state relations; the effort to remain neutral in the face of European tumult; the opening of the Mississippi River; and the removal of the threat of Indians and British in the Northwest Territory. McDonald also describes the rivalry between Washington's two most important department heads, Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton. [via]
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The Presidency of Thomas Jeffersonby Forrest McDonaldISBN 0700603301 (0-7006-0330-1)
Softcover, Univ Pr of Kansas
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He delineates, carefully and sympathetically, the Jeffersonian ideology and the agrarian ideal that underlay it; he traces the steps by which the ideology was transformed into a program of action; and he concludes that the interplay between the ideology and the action accounted both for the unparalleled success of Jefferson's first term in office, and for the unmitigated failure of the second term.
Jefferson as president was a man whose ideological commitments prevented him from reversing calamitous policy stances, a man who could be ruthless in suppressing civil rights when it was politically expedient, a man who was rarely, in the conventional sense of the word, a Jeffersonian. McDonald's portrait reveals him to be at once greater, simpler, and more complexly human than the mere "apostle of liberty" or "spokesman for democracy" that his adulators have relegated him to being.
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Ratifying the Constitutionby Forrest McDonaldISBN 0700605665 (0-7006-0566-5)
Softcover, Univ Pr of Kansas
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Recovering the Past: A Historian's Memoirby Forrest McDonaldISBN 0700613293 (0-7006-1329-3)
Hardcover, Univ Pr of Kansas
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Requiem: Variations on Eighteenth-Century Themesby Forrest McDonald , Ellen Shapiro McDonaldISBN 0700603700 (0-7006-0370-0)
Hardcover, Univ Pr of Kansas
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States' Rights and the Union: Imperium in Imperio, 1776-1876by Forrest McDonaldISBN 0700612270 (0-7006-1227-0)
Softcover, Univ Pr of Kansas
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Elegantly and accessibly written for a broad readership, McDonald's book provides an insightful look at states' rights--an issue that continues to stir debate nationwide. From constitutional scholars to Supreme Court justices to an electorate that's grown increasingly wary of federal power, the concept of states' rights has become a touchstone for a host of political and legal controversies. But, as McDonald shows, that concept has deep roots that need to be examined if we're to understand its implications for current and future debates.
McDonald's study revolves around the concept of imperium in imperio--literally "sovereignty within sovereignty" or the division of power within a single jurisdiction. With this broad principle in hand, he traces the states' rights idea from the Declaration of Independence to the end of Reconstruction and illuminates the constitutional, political, and economic contexts in which it evolved.
Although the Constitution, McDonald shows, gave the central government expansive powers, it also legitimated the doctrine of states' rights. The result was an uneasy tension and uncertainty about the nature of the central government's relationship to the states. At times the issue bubbled silently and unseen beneath the surface of public awareness, but at other times it exploded.
McDonald follows this episodic rise and fall of federal-state relations from the Hamilton-Jefferson rivalry to the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions, New England's resistance to Jefferson's foreign policy and the War of 1812, the Nullification Controversy, Andrew Jackson's war against the Bank of the United States, and finally the vitriolic public debates that led to secession and civil war. Other scholars have touched upon these events individually, but McDonald is the first to integrate all of them from the perspective of states' rights into one synthetic and magisterial vision.
The result is another brilliant study from a masterful historian writing on a subject of great import for Americans.
This book is part of the American Political Thought series. [via]
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The United States in the Twentieth Centuryby Forrest McDonaldISBN 0201043866 (0-201-04386-6)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley Longman, Incorporated
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Softcover, Addison-Wesley Longman, Incorporated - The United States in the Twentieth Century: ISBN 0201043866 (0-201-04386-6)
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