A Better Guide Than Reason: Federalists and Anti-federalists

by M.E. Bradford

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781560001317
Publisher:	Transaction Publishers
Publication date:	01/30/1994
Series:	The Library of Conservative Thought
Edition description:	REV
Pages:	238
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

M. E. Bradford, until his death in 1993, was professor of humanities at the University of Dallas in Texas. His work has appeared in many journals of opinion, including The Intercollegiate Review, Modern Age, and Imprimis.

Russell Kirk (1918–1994) was the author of twenty-nine books in several fields. He was the founding editor of Transaction’s Library of Conservative Thought series.

Table of Contents

I: ; A Teaching for Republicans: Roman History and the Nation’s First Identity; The Heresy of Equality: A Reply to Harry Jaffa; Word From the Forks of the Creek: the Revolution and the Populist Heritage; II: ; A Better Guide than Reason: The Politics of John Dickinson; According to their Genius: Politics and The Example of Patrick Henry; No Master but the Law: The Legacy of William Henry Drayton; III: ; Franklin and Jefferson: The Making and Binding of Self; All to do Over: The Revolutionary Precedent and the Secession of 1861; First Fathers: The Colonial Origins of the Southern Tradition; Lincoln, the Declaration, and Secular Puritanism: A Rhetoric for Continuing Revolution; IV: ; A Proper Patrimony: Russell Kirk and America’s Moral Genealogy