25851. Ackerman, Bruce A.. The failure of the founding fathers : Jefferson, Marshall, and the rise of presidential democracy. Cambridge, MA : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2005, 384pp., very good dust-jacket, price written on rear panel, very good hardcover, $14
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17699. Allison, R. Bruce. Democrats in exile, 1968-1972. The political confessions of a New England liberal. Hinsdale, Ill., Sol Press [1974], 147pp. 21 cm, PAPERBACK, very good, $7
The personal journal of an ivy-league activist who participated in the electoral reform revolution which toppled the power structure in Rhode Island.

8736. Beard, Charles A., 1874-1948. The American party battle. New York: The Macmillan company, 1928, vii pp. , 150pp., very good small brown cloth, slight wear, $12
The World today bookshelf.

13931. Becker, Carl L., 1873-1945. Everyman his own historian. Essays on history and politics. New York, F. S. Crofts & co., 1935, perhaps a later printing, no notations, 5pp. l., 325pp. 21 cm, very good blue cloth, front hinge paper torn 5cm on inside, $19
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21942. Beer, Samuel H., 1911-2009. The city of reason. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1949, viii, 227pp. 24 cm, very good blue cloth, some edgewear, paper clip mark, a few minor pencil erasures, $15
Harvard political studies. Relativity of Truth - Creative Intelligence - Relativity of Morals - Ethics of Community - Ethics of Civilization - Philosophy of History - Search for Purpose - Faith and Morals. "A philosophy of liberalism based on A. N. Whitehead's metaphysics of creative advance.

4729. Bell, Daniel. The End of Ideology: On the Exhaustion of Political Ideas in the Fifties. Glencoe, Illinois: The Free Press, 1960, 416pp., dust-jacket with minor tears, very good yellow cloth, previous owner's inscription, $15
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14242. Brand, Donald R.. Corporatism and the Rule of Law. A Study of the National Recovery Administration. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988, 340pp., very good blue cloth, fresh copy, $12
Consequences for the rule of law of the rise of administration as a way of creating law and social policy.

21116. Brookings Institution. Research frontiers in politics and government. Brookings lectures, 1955. Washington, Brookings Institution, 1955, vii, 240pp. 22 cm, very good dust-jacket, some foxing, very good gray cloth, some offsetting from glue, $15
Stephen Bailey, Herbert A. Simon, Robert A. Dahl, Richard C. Snyder, Alfred de Grazia, Malcolm Moos, Paul T. David, David B. Truman.

14348. Burgess, John W., 1844-1931. The foundations of political science. Introduction by Nicholas Murray Butler. New York, Columbia university press, 1933, vii, 158pp. 24 cm, very good brown cloth, very slight wrinking to the bottom edge of the first few pages, $25
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12746. Burgess, John W., 1844-1931. Reminiscences of an American scholar. The beginnings of Columbia university. Foreword by Nicholas Murray Butler. New York, Columbia university press, 1934, viii, 430pp. front. (port.) 23 cm, dust-jacket worn around edges with a few chips and tears, very good brown cloth, $35
Includes - The later years, 1898-1931, by Nicholas Murray Butler: pp. 342-346.

13933. Columbia University. Faculty of Political Science. / Thomas, Milton Halsey, 1903- / McBain, Howard Lee, 1880-1936. A bibliography of the Faculty of political science of Columbia university, 1880-1930. New York, Columbia university press, 1931, xi, 365pp. 21 cm, very good light blue cloth, $45
Individual bibliographies of 63 scholars and a listing of doctoral dissertations.

20812. Ely, Richard Theodore, 1854-1943. An introduction to political economy. New York : Chantauqua press, 1889, 358 p, very good brown decorated cloth, slight wear around edges, some light foxing, previous owner's name, $45
Chantauqua literary and scientific circle.

23092. Euchner, Charles, ed. Governing Greater Boston. Cambridge, Mass.: The Press at the Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston, 2002, 261pp., large PAPERBACK, very good, but small stain at top of front cover, $10
Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston. Includes sections on regional issues, history of the region, environment, transportation, housing, planning.

12774. Finer, Herman, 1898-1969. The future of government, being a continuation of the 'Theory and practice of modern government'. London, Methuen & Co. [1946], ix, 197, [1]pp. 23 cm, dust-jacket worn around edges with a few chips and tears, very good green cloth, slightly faded, INSCRIBED by Herman Finer to Merle Fainsod and with pleasant short letter on University of Chicago letterhead from Finer to Merle, laid in.. $85
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14536. Gans, Herbert J., 1927-, ed. On the making of Americans: essays in honor of David Riesman. [Philadelphia]: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1979, xiii, 350pp., dust-jacket with small tear at top of spine, very good red cloth, $30
What is American about America?: Featherstone, J. John Dewey and David Riesman, from the lost individual to the lonely crowd. Gusfield, J. R. The sociological reality of America. Jencks, C. The social basis of unselfishness. Meyersohn, R. Abundance reconsidered. Sennett, R. What Tocqueville feared. Glazer, N. Individualism and equality in the United States. Cottle, T. J. An unemployed family. Kato, H. Development nineteenth-century style. -- American institutions and subcultures-still changing: Gans, H. J. Symbolic ethnicity. Weiss, R. S. A new marital form. Berger, B. M. American pastorialism, suburbia and the commune movement. Denney, R. Feast of strangers. Trow, M. Aspects of diversity in American higher education. Grant, G. Journalism and social science Bibliography of Riesman's work: pp. 319-346.

3393. Garceau, Oliver, ed. Political research and political theory. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1968, x, 256pp. illus. 24 cm., very good dust-jacket, very good gray cloth, $12
Essays in memory of Prof. V. O. Key, Jr. On theory: Empirical approaches to democratic theory, by A. Leiserson. Political philosophy and political science, by J. R. Pennock. Natural law and the problem of value-judgement, by F. M. Watkins.--On method: Personality in politics. a conceptual map, with application to the problem of political rationality, by M. B. Smith. Micro-and macro-politics. notes on research strategy, by D. Price.--On party: The concept of "party," by A. Ranney. The comparison of Western political parties, by L. D. Epstein. State party systems and policy outputs, by D. Lockard. The dynamics of one-party systems, by M. Fainsod.

27249. Green, Leonard, ed. Diacritics. Special Issue on Fredric Jameson. The Political Unconscious. Volume 12, no. 3 (Fall, 1982). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins, 1982, 91pp., large PAPERBACK, good used copy, slight wear around edges, corners, a few minor pencil marks in margins on a few pages, $45
Hayden White, Getting out of History - Terry Eagleton, Fredric Jameson: the Politics of Style - Geof Bennington, Not Yet - S. P. Mohanty, History at the Edge of Discourse - Jerry Aline Flieger, The Prison-House of Language: Critic as Inmate - Michael Sprinker, The Part and the Whole - Interview with Fredric Jameson.

26899. Grimke, Frederick. The nature and tendency of free institutions. Edited by John William Ward. Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, , vi, 705pp., very good dust-jacket, very good blue cloth, $15
First published in 1848 under the title: Considerations upon the nature and tendency of free institutions.

12113. Harrington, Michael. Fragments of the Century. NY: Saturday Review Press / E. P. Dutton, 1973, stated First Edition, 246pp., very good dust-jacket, very good blue half-cloth, $6
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23940. Hartz, Louis, 1919-1986. The liberal tradition in America; an interpretation of American political thought since the Revolution. New York, Harcourt, Brace, & World, 1965, later printing, ix, 329pp., PAPERBACK, good used copy, slight wear, $7.5
Tremendously influential work of the early 1950s, on the long-term effects of America's lack of a feudal past. His pages on success and failure and the Horatio Alger myth clearly influenced Kenneth Lynn, who heard Hartz's lectures. They also provide some ideas as to why the theory of post-sovereign organizational law-making had to develop in Europe, rather than in the US. The powerful lure of individual success leaves little room for autonomy from the state, only for acceptance or rejection of it.

23171. Hazard, Leland, ed. Empire revisited. Homewood, Ill., R.D. Irwin, 1965, stated First Printing, 138pp., very good hardcover, $24
Carnegie Institute of Technology. Contributions to management education series. Richard M. Cyert, Introduction - Leland Hazard, New World Factors and Old Empire - Hazard, The Future of Europe - Martin Bronfenbrenner, Burdens and Benefits of Empire: American Style - Bernard Brodie, the Communist Reach for Empire - Fred C. Foy, The Global Market Place - Lt. General Andrew J. Goodpaster, Security in Transition: the Shift from Empire - Leland Hazard, The Need for Empire.

12368. Hocking, William Ernest, 1873-1966. Human nature and its remaking. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1918, xxvi, 434pp. 23 cm, very good red cloth, some wear to top of spine, endpapers darkening, review slip laid in, $25
Press bookplate: editorial copy Yale University Press. Includes a chapter on the theory of participation.

17858. Johnson, Frederick Ernest, 1884-, ed. Foundations of democracy, a series of addresses. New York and London, Pub. by Institute for religious & social studies, distributed by Harper & brothers [1947], ix, 278pp., very good dust-jacket, very good small white cloth, $19
Religion and civilization series The crisis in modern democracy, by F. E. Johnson. - Classical origins, by Irwin Edman. - Hebrew sources: Scriptures and Talmud, by Louis Finkelstein. - Mediaeval sources, by G. N. Shuster. - Reformation sources, by J. T. McNeill. - Humanistic sources, by H. M. Kallen. - Literary sources by A. N. Wilder. - The founding fathers, by M. F. X. Millar. - Democracy and economic liberaism, by G. H. Houston. - The role of economic groups, by A. J. Muste. - Democracy in a collectivist age, by G. B. Watson. - Education for freedom, by Scott Buchanan. - Democracy in educational practice, by H. S. Elliott. - Democratic conceptions of authority, revelation, and prophecy, by F. E. Johnson. - Democracy and ethical realism, by J. W. Dixon. - Organized religion and the practice of democracy, by H. P. Douglass. - Democracy and Zionism, by M. M. Kaplan.

13990. Kales, Albert M., 1875-1922. Unpopular government in the United States. Chicago, Ill., The University of Chicago press [1915], 2d printing, viii, 263pp. fold. front. (map) 21 cm, very good small blue cloth, $15
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25253. Knight, Frank H., 1885-1972. Freedom and reform; essays in economics and social philosophy. New York and London, Harper & Brothers, 1947, later printing, vii, 409pp., very good blue cloth, previous owner's name: political scientist Lucian W. Pye, $19
Freedom as fact and criterion - Social science and the political trend - Pragmatism and social action - Ethics and economic reform - Socialism: the nature of the problem - Religion and ethics in modern civilization - The meaning of democracy: its politico-economic structure and ideals - Science, philosophy, and social procedure - Fact and value in social science - Some notes on the economic interpretation of history - The rights of man and natural law - Human nature and world democracy - Economics, political science, and education - The painful act: the possibilities and limitations of collective rationality - The sickness of liberal society.

25311. Koch, Adrienne, 1912-1971. Power, morals, and the Founding Fathers; essays in the interpretation of the American enlightenment. Ithaca, N.Y., Great Seal Books, 1961, 158pp., small sewn PAPERBACK, very good, slight wear, $7.5
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24994. Kovacs, Arpad, ed. Let Freedom Ring. NY: St. John's University Press, 1961, 171pp., sewn PAPERBACK, very good, $11
12 essays by various authors on politics in countries between the West and East. Authors include Kenneth D. Wells, Senator Thomas Dodd, Senator Karl Mundt, George E. Sokolsky, Paul K. T. Sih, Joh Flaherty, William E. Daugherty, O. Carlos Stoetzer, Lucian W. Pye, HeinrichKnappstein, Bela Kiraly, L. Gray Cowan.

10984. Lakoff, Sanford A.. Equality in political philosophy. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1964, ix, 270pp. 22 cm., very good dust-jacket, very good cloth, a few very minor pencil notations, $19
Harvard political studies.

18682. Landon, Harold R., ed. Reinhold Niebuhr: a prophetic voice in our time. Essays in tribute by Paul Tillich, John C. Bennett, Hans J. Morgenthau.. Greenwich, Conn., Seabury Press, 1962, 126pp. 21 cm, sewn PAPERBACK, very good, $45
Sin and grace in the theology of Reinhold Niebuhr / by Paul Tillich -- Reinhold Niebuhr's contribution to Christian social ethics / by John C. Bennett -- The influence of Reinhold Niebuhr in American political life and thought / by Hans J. Morgenthau -- The response of Reinhold Niebuhr. ( Reinhold Niebuhr, 1892-1971). The book also includes discussions, with brief contributions by Jacob Taubes, Richard Kroner, and Eduard Heimann.

23775. Laski, Harold J., 1893-1950. The American presidency: an interpretation. New York, London : Harper & Brothers, 1940, later printing, viii, 278pp., very good brown cloth, $12
1939 lectures at Indiana University on how the presidency "actually works" - on the eve of World War II. Introductory - The President and his Cabinet - The President and Congress - Foreign Relations - Concluding Observations. Laski notes that Congress must, in emergency situations, give up more of its power to the President than it likes, and "that the means a president must use to secure the unity he requires are all quite different from anything the founders could have imagined" (121).

16067. Le Boutillier, Cornelia Geer. American Democracy and Natural Law. NY: Columbia University Press, 1950, 204pp., very good blue cloth, INSCRIBED by Le Boutilier to Evelyn Whitehead, 1950.. $35
"Do the root values of sound political and legal arrangements draw their vitality from an uneaminable abstraction, man's essential nature; or do they not, rather, draw their vitality from man's growth potentials, examinable in the light of history?" Citizen and State - Natural Law - Natural Law in America - The Pattern.

26740. Lippmann, Walter, 1889-1974. An inquiry into the principles of the good society. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1937, stated First Edition, xxx, 402 p. 23 cm., very good black cloth, slight wear, $17
The providential state - The collectivist movement - The reconstruction of liberalism - The testament of liberty.

24294. Long, Priscilla, ed. The new left : a collection of essays. Introduction by Staughton Lynd. Boston : Porter Sargent, 1969, 475pp., sewn PAPERBACK, very good, $10
Extending horizons books.

29710. MacKinnon, Catharine A.. Toward a feminist theory of the state. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1989, xvii, 330pp., very good dust-jacket, light wear, very good gray cloth, a couple of minor pencil erasures in margins on two pages, $12
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14875. Martin, John, 1864-. Dictators and democracies today. Winter Park, Florida, The Rollins Press, 1935, stated First Edition, xiii, 227pp., dust-jacket with minor wear and tears around edges, very good red cloth, some light foxing on foredge and cover, $20
The machinery of Peace. -- Three dictatorships and three democracies, the foundations of their domestic and foreign policies / A development of the lectures delivered in the spring of 1935 at Winter Park Florida. Author was "Lecturer and Consultant on International Relations at Rollins College." Martin was active in the Fabian society, emigrated to the US in 1899 and worked in education in New York city.

10025. Mayer, Milton Sanford. On liberty: man v. the state. Santa: Barbara, Calif., Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, 1969, 191pp. 22 cm., PAPERBACK, very good, $5
Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions. A Center occasional paper, v. 3, no. 1.

12757. McCarthy, Eugene J., 1916-. Frontiers in American democracy. Cleveland, World Pub. Co. [1960], stated First Edition, 155pp. 22 cm, dust-jacket worn around edges with a few chips and tears, very good red cloth, some foxing on endpapers, jacket design by Howard T. Glasser, $7.5
Realities of American Government, democracy in action, contemporary problems - including civil liberties, welfare, foreign policy.

25014. McDonald, Forrest. Novus ordo seclorum : the intellectual origins of the Constitution. Lawrence, Kan. : University Press of Kansas, 1985, later printing, xiii, 359pp., very good dust-jacket, very good hardcover, $15
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25895. Meiklejohn, Alexander, 1872-1964. What does America mean?. New York, W.W. Norton & Company, 1935, stated First Edition, xii, 271pp., fair dust-jacket with several tears and chips to edges and middle of spine, very good blue cloth, but faded around edges, previous owner's name: Edward Swartz, $30
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14383. Merriam, Charles E., 1874-1953. Systematic politics. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1946, 2d impression, xiii, 348pp. 24 cm, very good blue cloth, review slip laid in, $25
Chicago Daily News obituary clipping, review by R. M. MacIver, and material for the Merriam fellowship fund committee (featuriing portrait of Merriam) laid in. First published in 1945.

20733. Merriam, Charles Edward, 1874-1953. The new democracy and the new despotism. New York, London : McGraw-Hill, 1939, viii, 278pp. 24 cm, very good black cloth, $30
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27498. Mulford, Elisha, 1833-1885. The Nation; the foundations of civil order and political life in the United States. New York, A. M. Kelley, 1971, xiv, 418 p. 22 cm., very good light blue cloth, remainder stamp on bottom edge, $20
Reprints of economic classics, this edition originally 1887.

23601. Nye Jr., Joseph S.. Bound to lead : the changing nature of American power. New York : Basic Books, 1990, xii, 307pp., very good dust-jacket, very good black half-cloth, nicely INSCRIBED by Nye to a friend. $30
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14345. Patterson, Caleb Perry, 1880-. Presidential government in the United States: the unwritten constitution. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1947, ix, 301pp., very good green cloth, $35
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11856. Perry, Ralph Barton, 1876-1957. Puritanism and democracy. New York: The Vanguard Press, 1944, 2d printing, xvi, 688pp. . 22 cm., very good blue cloth, slight wear, $19
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13786. Rich, Bennett Milton. The presidents and civil disorder. Washington, D.C., The Brookings institution, 1941, x, 235pp. 24 cm, very good cloth, $35
Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C. Institute for Government Research. Studies in administration, no.42 Thesis (Ph.D.) -- University of Michigan. Historical and constitutional study of Presidential use of force to control internal violence, mostly strikes.

25022. Somit, Albert. The development of political science: from Burgess to behavioralism. by Albert Somit and Joseph Tanenhaus. Boston, Allyn and Bacon, 1967, ix, 220pp., very good black cloth, previous owner's name: L.T. Fein, $20
The publisher has glued a note to the title page: "The complete title of this publication is The Development of American Political Science: From Burgess to Behavioralism. All future printings will carry the title in its corrected form.".

17611. Steinberg, Ira S.. Ralph Barton Perry on education for democracy. [Columbus] Ohio State University Press [1970], xv, 182pp. 22 cm, very good dust-jacket, very good cloth, $10
Studies in educational theory of the John Dewey Society, no. 7 A revised version of the author's doctoral dissertation.

10145. Tussman, Joseph. Obligation and the body politic. New York: Oxford University Press, 1965, later printing, 144pp. 22 cm., sewn paper wraps, some pencil underlining and notations, good reading copy, $10
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11169. Walzer, Michael, 1937-. Obligations: essays on disobedience, war, and citizenship. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1970, xvi, 244pp. 22 cm., dust-jacket with minor wear, very good cloth, $25
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21408. Walzer, Michael, 1937-. Radical principles: reflections of an unreconstructed democrat. New York : Basic Books, 1980, viii, 310pp., 22 cm, very good dust-jacket, very good orange cloth, $9
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8973. Westphal, Albert Charles Frederick. The House committee on foreign affairs. New York: Columbia university press. London P. S. King & Staples, ltd, 1942, 268pp. 23 cm., very good green cloth. Ex-library copy with minimal markings, no spine label. Bookplate reads: gift of Henry Steele Commager, $12
Studies in history, economics and public law, no. 493 Issued also as thesis (PH. D.) Columbia university.

9086. Wills, Garry, 1934-. Confessions of a conservative. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1979, stated First Edition, 231pp., 22 cm., dust-jacket with minor wear, very good red half-cloth, $15
Includes reminiscences of William F. Buckley and Willmoore Kendall.