Challenges to the American Founding: Slavery, Historicism, and Progressivism in the Nineteenth Century

by Ronald J. Pestritto and Thomas L. Krannawitter

Book Overview

Ronald J. Pestritto's and Thomas G. West's earlier volume The American Founding and the Social Compact addressed the nature of the thought and philosophy of the men who shaped the American founding. In this second volume in a trilogy, Pestritto and West examine the fate of the founders' principles in the nine teeth century, when these principles faced their first great challenges. Support of slavery, culminating in secession and civil war,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0739108727
• ISBN13: 9780739108727
• Release Date: December 2004
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Length: 314 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.7" x 9.1"