Filling in the missing spaces left by traditional textbooks on
American political thought, Reconsidering American Political
Thought uses race, gender, and ethnicity as a lens through which to
engage ongoing debates on American values and intellectual
traditions. Weaving document-based texts analysis with short
excerpts from classics in American literature, this book presents a
re-examination of the political and intellectual debates of
consequence throughout American history. Purposely beginning the
story in 1619, Saladin Ambar reassesses the religious, political,
and social histories of the colonial period in American history.
Thereafter, Ambar moves through the story of America, with each
chapter focusing on a different era in American history up to the
present day. Ambar threads together analysis of periods including
Thomas Jefferson's aspiration to create an "Empire of Liberty," the
ethnic, racial, and gender-based discourse instrumental in creating
a "Yankee" industrial state between 1877 and 1932, and the
intellectual, cultural, and social forces that led to the political
rise of Ronald Reagan and Barack Obama in recent decades. In
closing, Ambar assesses the prospects for a new, more invigorated
political thought and discourse to reshape and redirect national
energies and identity in the Trump presidency. Reconsidering
American Political Thought presents a broad and subjective view
about critical arguments in American political thought, giving
future generations of students and lecturers alike an inclusive
understanding of how to teach, research, study, and think about
American political thought.
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