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James Madison

A Biography

By: Ralph Louis Ketcham,Ralph Ketcham

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James Madison

A Biography

By: Ralph Louis Ketcham,Ralph Ketcham

Utilizing the vast amount of source material made available in the last 30 years, Professor Ketcham has captured the essential man in his times and in doing so has made him understandable for us in our own day. --Los Angeles Times

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University of Virginia Press

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0813912652

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9780813912653

James Madison

A Biography

By: Ralph Louis Ketcham,Ralph Ketcham

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A Biography

By: Ralph Louis Ketcham,Ralph Ketcham

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The Madisons at Montpelier

Reflections on the Founding Couple

By: Ralph Ketcham

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The Madisons at Montpelier

Reflections on the Founding Couple

By: Ralph Ketcham

Ketcham . . . provides an engaging, vivid, and even moving account of James and Dolley [Madison's] long years of retirement at Montpelier. . . . His book provides a warm and touching portrait of their life.--Jack Rakove, Stanford University. 20 b&w photos.

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253

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University of Virginia Press

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0813928117

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9780813928111

Public-Spirited Citizenship

Leadership and Good Government in the United States

By: Ralph Ketcham

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Public-Spirited Citizenship

Leadership and Good Government in the United States

By: Ralph Ketcham

Any searching look at the theory and practice of citizenship in the United States today is bewildering and disconcerting. Despite earnest concern for participation, access, and "leverage," there is a widespread perception that nothing citizens do has much meaning or influence. This book argues that for American democracy to work in the twenty-first century, renewed interest in teaching the nation's young citizens a sense of the public good is imperative.All of the nation's founders, especially Adams, Jefferson, Franklin, and Madison, addressed the question of whether and how a citizen can make a difference in the American political process. This concern harkens back even farther, to Locke, Erasmus, and Aristotle. Today, one obstacle to good citizenship is the social scientific turn in political science. Leaders in civic education in the twentieth century eschewed grand ideas and moral principles in favour of a focus on behaviourism and competitive, liberal politics. Another problem is the growing belief that the government has no business promoting the public good through the support of religious, educational, or cultural efforts.Ralph Ketcham vividly depicts the relationship of private self-interest and public-spirited action as these pertain to citizenship and good government. This is an enlightening book for the general reader, as well as for students, professional social scientists, and political philosophers.

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265

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Routledge

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1351495496

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9781351495493

The Idea of Democracy in the Modern Era

By: Ralph Ketcham

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The Idea of Democracy in the Modern Era

By: Ralph Ketcham

Although the last half of the twentieth century has been called the Age of Democracy, the twenty-first has already demonstrated the fragility of its apparent triumph as the dominant form of government throughout the world. Reassessing the fate of democracy for our time, distinguished political theorist Ralph Ketcham traces the evolution of this idea over the course of four hundred years. He traces democracy's bumpy ride in a book that is both an exercise in the history of ideas and an explication of democratic theory. Ketcham examines the rationales for democratic government, identifies the fault lines that separate democracy from good government, and suggests ways to strengthen it in order to meet future challenges. Drawing on an encyclopedic command of history and politics, he examines the rationales that have been offered for democratic government over the course of four manifestations of modernity that he identifies in the Western and East Asian world since 1600. Ketcham first considers the fundamental axioms established by theorists of the Enlightenment—Bacon, Locke, Jefferson—and reflected in America's founding, then moves on to the mostly post-Darwinian critiques by Bentham, Veblen, Dewey, and others that produced theories of the liberal corporate state. He explains late-nineteenth-century Asian responses to democracy as the third manifestation, grounded in Confucian respect for communal and hierarchical norms, followed by late-twentieth-century postmodernist thought that views democratic states as oppressive and seeks to empower marginalized groups. Ketcham critiques the first, second, and fourth modernity rationales for democracy and suggests that the Asian approach may represent a reconciliation of ancient wisdom and modern science better suited to today's world. He advocates a reorientation of democracy that de-emphasizes group or identity politics and restores the wholeness of the civic community, proposing a return to the Jeffersonian universalism—that which informed the founding of the United States—if democracy is to flourish in a fifth manifestation. The Idea of Democracy in the Modern Era is an erudite, interdisciplinary work of great breadth and complexity that looks to the past in order to reframe the future. With its global overview and comparative insights, it will stimulate discussion of how democracy can survive-and thrive-in the coming era.

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University Press of Kansas

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0700631593

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9780700631599

Presidents Above Party

The First American Presidency, 1789-1829

By: Ralph Ketcham

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Presidents Above Party

The First American Presidency, 1789-1829

By: Ralph Ketcham

George Washington's vision was a presidency free of party, a republican, national office that would transcend faction. That vision would remain strong in the administrations of John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, and John Quincy Adams, yet largely disappear under Andrew Jackson and his successors. This book is a comprehensive and pathbreaking study of the early presidency and the ideals behind it. Ralph Ketcham examines the roots of nonpartisan leadership in Western thought and the particular influences on the founding fathers. Intellectual and political profiles of the first six presidents and their administrations emphasize the construction each put on the office, the challenges he faced, and the compromises he did and did not make. The erosion of nonpartisanship under Andrew Jackson is presented as a counterpoint that helps define the early presidency and the permanent transition from it. Addressing the thoughtful citizen as well as the scholar, the author poses the fundamental questions about presidential leadership, then and now. The best study of the early presidency, this book is an intellectual portrait of the age that will challenge received notions of American history.

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284

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UNC Press Books

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0807839361

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9780807839362

Introduction to Risk and Insurance

By: Ralph H. Blanchard

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Introduction to Risk and Insurance

By: Ralph H. Blanchard

A collection of thirty-five articles by this renowned specialist in the sytematic study of insurance, and covering a broad range of topics.

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228

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Beard Books

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1587981009

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9781587981005

From Colony to Country

The Revolution in American Thought, 1750-1820

By: Ralph Ketcham

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From Colony to Country

The Revolution in American Thought, 1750-1820

By: Ralph Ketcham

Radical whig thought-- American Revolutiion - thinkers -- Convention of 1787 -- Puritan Ethic --Colonial Thinkers -- United States Constitution.

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MacMillan

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0025629301

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9780025629301

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James Madison

James Madison

James Madison

James Madison

The Madisons at Montpelier

The Madisons at Montpelier

Public-Spirited Citizenship

Public-Spirited Citizenship

The Idea of Democracy in the Modern Era

The Idea of Democracy in the Modern Era

Presidents Above Party

Presidents Above Party

Introduction to Risk and Insurance

Introduction to Risk and Insurance

From Colony to Country

From Colony to Country

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