AMERICAN POLITICAL THOUGHT SINCE THE CIVIL WAR Political Science 268 Mcwilliams Spring 2005 (NOTE: THIS FILE WAS CREATED WITH AN OCR PROGRAM FROM A SCANNED DOCUMENT, IT MAY CONTAIN ERRORS. FOR A MORE PRECISE VERSION, READ THE ACCOMPANYING PDF FILE!) 1. Required Texts: Adams, Henry, THE EDUCATION OF HENRY ADAMS Dewey, John, POLITICAL WRITINGS DuBois, W.E.B., THE SOULS OF BLACK FOLK Ellison, Ralph, INVISIBLE MAN Gilman, Charlotte Perkins, HERLAND Goldman, Eric, RENDEZVOUS WITH DESTINY Sumner, William Graham, ON LIBERTY, SOCIETY AND POLITICS Vonnegut, Kurt L., CAT.S CRADLE Recommended: For broad treatments of American political ideas since the Civil War, you may wish to consult James P. Young, RECONSIDERING AMERICAN LIBERALISM, Richard Hofstadter, THE AGE OF REFORM, Rogers Smith, CIVIC IDEALS, or Vernon L. Parrington, MAIN CURRENTS IN AMERICAN THOUGHT. Alexis de Tocqueville.s DEMOCRACY IN AMERICA, of course, is a virtually indispensable treatment of political culture in America. Other important analyses of American political thought are cited in Young. 2. Course Requirements: a. One in.class final examination,to be distributed in Class, Wednesday, April 27 b. Three short papers. Four paper assignments are indicated below. You may either (a) write all four papers, in which case only your three highest grades will count toward your final grade, or (b) complete only the three assignments that most interest or suit you. (1) Due Wednesday, February 2. Maximum, 5 double-spaced typewritten pages or the equivalent. Discuss Mark Twain's story, "The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg," with particular attention to what Twain was attempting to teach Americans about morality in the social and public life of post-Civil War America. (2) Due Monday, February 28. Maximum, 5 double-spaced typewritten pages or the equivalent. Critically analyze the utopia Charlotte Gilman presents in HERLAND. Is Herland--in Gilman.s view and in yours--a best or ideal .city in speech.? What is Gilman trying to teach her readers about American political life in practice? (3) Due Monday, March 21. Maximum, 5 double-spaced typewritten pages or the equivalent. Compare Theodore Roosevelt.s views, as presented in .The Strenuous Life. and his speech to the Ohio Constitutional Convention (1912) with H.L.Mencken. s critique in .Roosevelt: An Autopsy.. How accurate and how adequate is Mencken.s treatment of T.R.? What political lessons is Mencken himself attempting to convey? (4) Due Monday, April 18. Maximum, 5 double-spaced typewritten pages or the equivalent. Discuss President Bush.s 2005 State of the Union Address in relation to (1) its view-implicit and explicit-of American democracy and its problems, and (2) the extent to which it reflects themes and ideas studied in this course. (In addition to the readings that have been assigned up to this date, you may wish to consult Young.s discussion, pp.235-325; on electronic reserve) 3. Course Outline: Required readings are starred (*); all others are recommended. Class dates are tentative. A. Postwar America: The Gilded Age and its Critics (January 17, 19,24) *Henry Adams, .Free Fight,. Chapter 18 of THE EDUCATION OF HENRY ADAMS kEric Goldman, RENDEZVOUS WITH DESTINY,5-9,1O-28 *Mark Twain, .The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg. (on electronic reserve) Adams, Henry, DEMOCRACY Fine, Sidney, LAISSEZ-FAIRE AND THE GENERAL WELFARE STATE Fiske, John, AMERICAN POLITICAL IDEAS Godkin, E.L., PROBLEMS OF MODERN DEMOCRACY Josephson, Matthew, THE ROBBER BARONS Kirkland, Edward C., DREAM AND THOUGHT IN THE BUSINESS COMMUNITY Lawson, Melinda, PATRIOT FIRES; FORGING A NEW NATIONALISM IN THE CIVIL WAR NORTH Mulford, Elisha, THE NATION Tomsich, John, A GENTEEL ENDEAVOR Twain, Mark and Warner, Charles D., THE GILDED AGE Twain, Mark, A CONNECTICUT YANKEE IN KING ARTHUR.S COURT B. The .Steel Chain of Ideas.: Liberalism and Social Darwinism (January 26, 31,February 2) *William Graham Sumner, ON LIBERTY, SOCIETY AND POLITICS, 133.155,159.192, 201.226, 251.261,298.322 Bannister, Robert, SOCIAL DARWINISM Fiske, John, CIVIL GOVERNMENT IN THE UNITED STATES Filler, L.B., ed., LATE 19th CENTURY AMERICAN LIBERALISM Hofstadter, Richard, SOCIAL DARWINISM IN AMERICAN THOUGHT McCloskey, Robert, AMERICAN CONSERVATISM IN THE AGE OF ENTERPRISE Sumner, William Graham, FOLKWAYS C. The Politics of Reform (February 7, 9, 14,16) *Theodore Roosevelt,.The Strenuous Life,. and .Speech to the Ohio Constitutional Convention of 1912,. (on electronic reserve) *Go1j1nan, 2- .sg-1co f3 Aron, Daniel, MEN OF GOOD HOPE Eisenach, Eldon, THE LOST PROMISE OF PROGRESSIVISM Goodwyn, Lawrence, DEMOCRATIC PROMISE Kloppenberg, James, UNCERTAIN VICTORY Milkis, Sidney and Mileur, Jerome, eds., PROGRESSIVISM AND THE NEW DEMOCRACY Palmer, Bruce, .MEN OVER MONEY.: THE SOUTHERN POPULIST CRITIQUE OF INDUSTRIAL CAPITALISM Roosevelt, Theodore, THE STRENUOUS LIFE Stettner, Edward, SHAPING MODERN LIBERALISM Taylor, Bob Pepperman, CITIZENSHIP AND DEMOCRATIC DOUBT Tulis, Jeffrey, THE RHETORICAL PRESIDENCY D. Outsiders: Through the Looking Glass (February 21,23,28) *DuBojs, W.E.B., SOULS OF BLACK FOLK *Gjlman Charlotte, HERLAND Addams, Jane, THE SPIRIT OF YOUTH AND THE CITY STREETS Dunne, Finley Peter, MR. DOOLEY IN WAR AND PEACE Gilman, Charlotte P., WOMEN AND ECONOMICS Lewis, David Levering, W.E.B.DUBOIS Riordon, William, PLUNKITT OF TANMANY HALL Royce, Josiah, RACE QUESTIONS, PROVINCIALISM AND OTHER AMERICAN PROBLEMS Storing, Herbert, ed., WHAT COUNTRY HAVE I? Washington, Booker T., UP FROM SLAVERY Yellin, Jane Fagan, WOMEN AND SISTERS E. Skeptics and Critics: World War I and After (March 2, 14, 16) *Henry Adams,chapters 22,25,33,34,35 of THE EDUCATION OF HENRY ADAMS (electronic reserve) *Randolph Bourne, .Transnational America. (on electronic reserve) *John Dewey, POLITICAL WRITINGS, 192-204 (includes a critical essay by Randolph Bourne) *Golan, 2+- *H.L.Mencken, .Roosevelt: An Autopsy,. .On Being an American,. and .Living in Baltimore,. from PREJUDICES (on electronic reserve) Bourne, Randolph, WAR AND THE INTELLECTUALS Josephson, Matthew, PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS AN AMERICAN Lasch, Christopher, THE NEW RADICALISM IN AMERICA , THE TRUE AND ONLY HEAVEN Lippmann, Walter, PUBLIC OPINION Mumford, Lewis, THE GOLDEN DAY Santayana, George, CHARACTER AND OPINION IN THE UNITED STATES Stearns, Harold, AMERICA AND THE YOUNG INTELLECTUAL Vaughan, Leslie, RANDOLPH BOURNE AND THE POLITICS OF CULTURAL RADICAL I SM F. The New Liberalism and the New Deal (March 21,23,28) *John Dewey, POLITICAL WRITINGS, 81-88,142-152, 169.191, 219.229 *Goldman 320.404 Arnold, Thurman, THE FOLKLORE OF CAPITALISM Cohen, Morris R., THE FAITH OF A LIBERAL Dewey, John, LIBERALISM OLD AND NEW Girvetz, Harry, FROM WEALTH TO WELFARE Goldman, RENDEZVOUS WITH DESTINY, pp.248-289 Milkis, Sidney, THE PRESIDENT AND THE PARTIES Niebuhr, Reinhold, MORAL MAN AND INMORAL SOCIETY Ryan, Alan, JOHN DEWEY Sussman, Warren, CULTURE AND HISTORY G. Post-War America: International Society arid the New Industrialism (March 30,April 4,6) *young, chapters 12,15 (pp.181.202, 269.286; electronic reserve) *Theodore Lowi, .Interest Group Liberalism: the New Public Philosophy,. chapter 3 of THE END OF LIBERALISM (on electronic reserve) Bell, Daniel, THE END OF IDEOLOGY Dahi, Robert, A PREFACE TO DEMOCRATIC THEORY Gaibraith, John Kenneth, AMERICAN CAPITALISM: THE CONCEPT OF COUNTERVAILING POWER THE NEW INDUSTRIAL STATE Krause, Sharon, LIBERALISM WITH HONOR Lustig, Jeffrey, CORPORATE LIBERALISM Mills, C. Wright, THE POWER ELITE Rawis, John, A THEORY OF JUSTICE Riesman, David, THE LONELY CROWD Truman, David, THE GOVERNMENTAL PROCESS H. Race, Gender and Culture (April 11,13, 18) *Ralph Ellison, INVISIBLE MAN *young, chapter 13 (pp.203-233; electronic reserve) Baldwin, James, GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN NOTES OF A NATIVE SON Ellison, Ralph, INVISIBLE MAN SHADOW AND ACT Elshtain, Jean Bethke, PUBLIC MAN, PRIVATE WOMAN Farganis, Sondra, SITUATING FEMINISM Gilligan, Carol, IN A DIFFERENT VOICE Hunter, James Davison, CULTURE WARS Philips, Anne, ENGENDERING DEMOCRACY West, Cornel, RACE MATTERS I. Conservatism and Communitarianism: Self-Government and the Challenge of Technology (April 20, 25, 27) *Kurt Vonnegut, CAT.S CRADLE *young, chapters l4,l6(pp.235.268,287.325; electronic reserve) Bellah, Robert, et al., HABITS OF THE HEART Berry, Wendell, WHAT ARE PEOPLE FOR? Bloom, Allan, THE CLOSING OF THE AMERICAN MIND Ellul, Jacques, THE TECHNOLOGICAL SOCIETY Lasch, Christopher, THE REVOLT OF THE ELITES Macedo, Stephen, LIBERAL VOICES Mansfield, Harvey C., AMERICA.S CONSTITUTIONAL SOUL Pangle, Thomas, THE ENNOBLING OF DEMOCRACY Sandel, Michael, DEMOCRACY.S DISCONTENTS Wolin, Sheldon S., THE PRESENCE OF THE PAST