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POLITICAL THOUGHT 2020 CATALOG of POLITICAL THOUGHT TITLES Bold Thinking Starts Here LIBERTY FUND BOOKS POLITICAL THOUGHT 2020 CATALOG OF POLITICAL THOUGHT TITLES Bold Thinking Starts Here Liberty Fund, Inc., is a private educational through our own times. The programs are intended to enrich foundation established to encourage the study of the understanding and appreciation of the complex nature of a society of free and responsible individuals and to contribute to ideal of a society of free and responsible individuals. its preservation. Liberty Fund develops, supervises, and finances its own As a tax-exempt, private operating foundation, Liberty Fund’s educational activities to foster thought and encourage discourse purposes are educational and intellectual. Liberty Fund does on enduring issues pertaining to liberty. not, therefore, engage in politics or political action of any kind. 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York By James McClellan Revised Third Edition The Crisis was a London weekly published between January 1775 and October 1776. It was the longest-running weekly Unlike most textbooks in American Government, Liberty, pamphlet series printed in the British Atlantic world during Order, and Justice seeks to familiarize the student with the those years, and it used unusually bold, pithy language. Neither basic principles of the Constitution, and to explain their the longevity of the effort nor the colorful language employed origin, meaning, and purpose. Particular emphasis is placed would be reason enough to collect and print all ninety-two on federalism and the separation of powers. These features issues under one cover in a modern edition. The Crisis lays claim of the book, together with its extensive and unique historical to our attention because of its place in the rise of freedom of illustrations, make this edition of Liberty, Order, and Justice the press, its self-conscious attempt to create a transatlantic especially suitable for introductory classes in American community of protest, and its targeting of the king as the Government and for high school students in advanced source of political problems—but without attacking the placement courses. institution of monarchy itself. James McClellan (1937–2005) was the James Bryce Visiting Fellow in The Crisis was condemned informally by leaders in the American Studies at the Institute of United States Studies, University of British government, and then formally in court, as a dangerous London. example of seditious libel. Copies of it were publicly burned, and yet publication continued uninterrupted. The men behind The Crisis were determined to interest the British public in American affairs and were no doubt pleased when various issues were reprinted in the colonies. They played on shared beliefs and shared fears: beliefs in the existence of fundamental Liberty, Order, and rights, rights beyond the reach of any government, and the fear that loss of those rights in Britain’s American colonies could Justice seeks to familiarize lead to their loss in Britain itself. They denounced George III in language at once harsh and florid, and did so many months before Thomas Paine’s Common Sense. Even so, The Crisis did the student with the basic not call on Britons to overthrow monarchy with a republic, and its ardor for the Patriot cause cooled once Revolutionary principles of the Constitution. Americans declared their independence. It stands as proof that strident rhetoric does not necessarily lead to radical political action. Its history also shows that ideas, once unleashed, take on a life of their own. Neil L. York is professor of history at Brigham Young University. He is the author or editor of a dozen books, including, most recently, The American Revolution, 1760–1790: New Nation as New Empire. 2020 CATALOG 1 LIBERTY FUND BOOKS POLITICAL THOUGHT Democracy in Democracy in America America By Alexis de Tocqueville De la démocratie Edited by Eduardo Nolla en Amérique Translated by James T. Schleifer BILINGUAL EDITION In 1831, Alexis de Tocqueville and IN FOUR VOLUMES Historical-Critical Edition of De la 2010 | 6 x 9 | 3,360 pages démocratie en Amérique Gustave de Beaumont spent nine months in the U.S. studying American By Alexis de Tocqueville ENGLISH-ONLY EDITION Translator’s note, list of prisons on behalf of the French IN TWO VOLUMES key terms, foreword, list Edited by Eduardo Nolla government. They investigated not just 2012 | 6 x 9 | 1,688 pages of twenty-one illustrations Translated by James T. Schleifer including drawings by the prison system but indeed every Translator’s note, list of Beaumont, editor’s aspect of American public and private key terms, foreword, a introduction, exhaustive In 1831, Alexis de Tocqueville and his life—the political, economic, religious, contemporary map of notes, six appendixes, a list friend Gustave de Beaumont visited cultural, and above all the social life of North America, editor’s of all works known to have the United States. From Tocqueville’s the young nation. From Tocqueville’s introduction, footnotes, been used by Tocqueville, copious notes of what he had seen appendixes, a list of all a bibliography, and French copious notes came Democracy in works known to have and English indexes and heard came the classic text De la America. Démocratie en Amérique, published in been used by Tocqueville, bibliography, index Hardcover two large volumes, the first in 1835, This English-only edition of ISBN 978-0-86597-719-8 Democracy in America features Eduardo the second in 1840. The first volume Paperback $96.00 | £66.95 focused primarily on political society; Nolla’s incisive notes to James ISBN 978-0-86597-840-9 the second, on civil society. Schleifer’s English translation of the $22.00 | £17.95 Paperback French text, with extensive reference ISBN 978-0-86597-724-2 The Liberty Fund bilingual $60.00 | £41.95 to early outlines, drafts, manuscript This title is available as an Democracy in America includes variants, marginalia, unpublished ebook for purchase on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and iTunes. Eduardo Nolla’s critical edition of fragments, and other materials: “This the French text and notes on the new Democracy is not only the one that left-hand pages and James Schleifer’s Tocqueville presented to the reader of English translation, with notes, on 1835, then to the reader of 1840 the right. This is the fullest historical . the reader will see how Tocqueville critical edition of the Democracy, and proceeded with the elaboration of the the notes offer an extensive selection main ideas of this book.” of early outlines, drafts, manuscript variants, marginalia, unpublished fragments, and other materials. Alexis de Tocqueville (1805–1859) was a French writer and politician. Eduardo Nolla is a Professor at the Universidad San Pablo-CEU, Madrid. James T. Schleifer is emeritus Dean of the Library and Professor of History at the College of New Rochelle and has been a visiting lecturer at Yale University. 2020 CATALOG 2 LIBERTY FUND BOOKS POLITICAL THOUGHT The Making of Tocqueville’s Tocqueville’s Voyages The Evolution of His Ideas and Their “Democracy in Journey Beyond His Time America” Edited and with an Introduction by Christine Dunn Henderson By James T. Schleifer Foreword by George W. Pierson Tocqueville’s Voyages is a collection of newly written essays by some of The Liberty Fund second edition of the most well-known Tocquevillian James T. Schleifer’s celebrated study scholars today. The essays in the SECOND EDITION first part of the volume explore the 2015 | 6 x 9 | 504 pages 2000 | 6 x 9 | 437 pages of Tocqueville includes a new preface by the author and an epilogue, “The development of Tocqueville’s thought, Introduction, note on the Preface, preface to the Problem of the Two Democracies.” his intellectual voyage, during his contributors, index second edition, epilogue, For the first time, the evolution of trip to America and while writing selected bibliography, a number of Tocqueville’s central Democracy in America.
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