IV. The Time of Development and Crisis (8 March – 3 April)

    A.  Strains of Liberal Individualism (8 -20 Mar.)

   

          1.  Henry David Thoreau (Dolbeare)               

          2.  Elizabeth Cady Stanton (Dolbeare)               

          3.  Frederick Douglass (Dolbeare)               

    B.  Responses to Liberal Individualism (20 - 22 Mar.)

   

          1.  Oretes Brownson (Dolbeare)              

                    2.  George Fitzhugh (Dolbeare)                        

    C.  The Failed Second American Revolution (27 Mar. – 1 Apr.)

   

          1.  John C. Calhoun (Dolbeare)
               (LR): Richard Hofstadter, "The Marx of the Master Class," in The American Political Tradition (1948)               

          2.  Abraham Lincoln (Dolbeare)
               (LR): Garry Wills, "Prologue," to Inventing America (1978)

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