American democracy : American founders, presidents, and enlightened philosophers / edited by Justin P. DePlato ; with Kyle Hodge.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Preface; Introduction; 1: From Greece to Rome; Chapter One: Plato (427-347 BCE); Chapter Two: Aristotle (384-322 BCE); Chapter Three: Cicero (106-43 BCE); II: Enlightenment; Chapter Four: Hugo Grotius (1583-1645); Chapter Five: Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679); Chapter Six: Second Treatise on Government; Chapter Seven: Montesquieu (1689-1755); Chapter Eight: Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778); III: The American Project; Chapter Nine: John Winthrop (1588-1649); Chapter Ten: William Tennent (1673-1746); Chapter Eleven: Thomas Paine (1737-1809); Chapter Twelve: Patrick Henry (1736-1799)

Chapter Thirteen: Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)Chapter Fourteen: Robert Morris (1734-1806); Chapter Fifteen: Elbridge Gerry (1744-1814); Chapter Sixteen: George Clinton (1739-1812); Chapter Seventeen: Benjamin Rush (1746-1813); Chapter Eighteen: Edmund Randolph (1753-1813); Chapter Nineteen: John Adams (1735-1826); Chapter Twenty: Alexander Hamilton (1755/1757-1804); Chapter Twenty-one: Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826); Chapter Twenty-two: James Madison; Chapter Twenty-three: John C. Calhoun (1782-1850); Chapter Twenty-four: Frances Wright (1795-1852); IV: American Presidents

Chapter Twenty-five: George Washington (1732-1799)Chapter Twenty-six: Andrew Jackson (1767-1845); Chapter Twenty-seven: James Knox Polk (1795-1849); Chapter Twenty-eight: Millard Fillmore (1800-1874); Chapter Twenty-nine: Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865); Chapter Thirty: William McKinley (1843-1901); Chapter Thirty-one: Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919); Chapter Thirty-two: Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924); Chapter Thirty-three: Calvin Coolidge (1872-1933); Chapter Thirty-four: Herbert Hoover (1874-1964); Chapter Thirty-five: Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945)

Chapter Thirty-six: John F. Kennedy (1917-1963)Chapter Thirty-seven: Richard Nixon (1913-1994); Chapter Thirty-eight: Ronald Reagan (1911-2004); Conclusion; The Constitution of the United States; The Declaration of Independence; Translation Credits; Index; About the Authors

This book is a comprehensive collection of historic political thought. From the political philosophies of classical and renaissance thinkers to the speeches of American Presidents, it introduces the American Founders' theories of democracy by connecting and analyzing the words of their philosophical forerunners and Presidential successors.

English.

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