McWilliams and the problem of American political education

Perspectives on Political Science

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 213-218

  Lawler, Peter Augustine ^a  

^a BERRY COLLEGE   (United States)

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EID: 33846989352     PISSN: 10457097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3200/PPSC.35.4.213-218     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (15)

1. Wilson Carey McWilliams, "On Equality as the Moral Foundation of Community," Moral Foundations of the American Republic, ed. R. Horowitz (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1986). I am taking a very minimalist approach to notes here, reserving them for direct quotes. This essay is mostly based on themes that recur repeatedly in McWilliams's writing. I must thank Tricia Steele for gathering together for me in one convenient place everything he published - a great deal!
2. McWilliams, The Idea of Fraternity in America (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1973), 49.
3. McWilliams, "On Equality," 295.
4. McWilliams, "Poetry, Politics, and the Comic Spirit," PS: Political Science and Politics 28 (June 1995): 98.
5. Harvey C. Mansfield, Manliness (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006).
6. McWilliams, "Political Arts and Political Sciences," in Power and Community, ed. P. Green and S. Levinson, 365 (New York: Pantheon, 1969).
7. McWilliams, "Protestant Prudence and the Natural Rights Republic," in Protestantism and the American Founding, ed. T. Engeman (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2004), 145.
8. McWilliams, "Politics," American Quarterly 35 (Spring/Summer 1983): 22.
9. McWilliams, "Political Arts," 359.
10. Ibid.
11. Ibid., 358.
12. Tom Wolfe, I Am Charlotte Simmons (New York: Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 2004).
13. McWilliams, "Toward Genuine Self-Government," Academic Questions 15 (Winter 2001/02): 51.
14. McWilliams, "Leo Strauss and the Dignity of American Political Thought," Review of Politics 60 (Spring 1998): 242.
15. McWilliams, "Politics," 36.