GOVT 3665 - [American Political Thought from Madison to Malcolm X]

(crosslisted) AMST 3665, HIST 3160
(HB) (HA-AS)

Fall. Next offered 2016-2017. 4 credits.

Staff.

A survey of American political thought from the Eighteenth Century to the present. Particular attention will be devoted to the persistence of liberal individualism in the American tradition. Politicians, pamphleteers and poets will provide the reading. The professor offers insightful historical and social context.