Voices in dissent; an anthology of individualist thought in the United States,

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The popular book; a history of America's literary taste. by Hart, James D. (James David), 1911-1990

Table of Contents: “…The practice of piety -- 2. The age of reason -- 3. Common sense -- 4. The power of sympathy -- 5. …”


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Thomas Paine : apostle of freedom by Fruchtman, Jack

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Beginnings -- Thetford and beyond -- "Poverty begets meanness" -- Liberty and the republic -- "Common sense will tell us" -- Summer soldiers and sunshine patriots -- Financial plagues and Silas Deane -- A hired pen -- Invention and finance -- France -- Burke's response: "The swinish multitude" -- The "inherent, indefeasible" Rights of man -- Social responsibility and illuminist spirituality -- "The most determined champion of republican principles" -- The Revolution declines -- The two-edged sword of liberty -- The age of reason -- "Some very ignorant and stupid pretenders" -- Justice, agrarian style -- Illuminism and Nicolas de Bonneville -- Home in America -- Bitter battles with Federalists -- Final days -- Assessment.…”


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Dissent : the history of an American idea by Young, Ralph, 1942-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Dissent and America -- The "free aire of a new world" -- Dissent in an age of reason -- Revolution -- Discord in the new republic -- Slavery and its discontents -- Reformers and dissidents -- Expansion and conflict -- Dissent imperils the union -- A nation divides -- Liberation and suppression -- Protest and conflict in the West -- Workers of the world unite! …”


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Backgrounds of American literary thought by Horton, Rod William, 1910-

Table of Contents: “…Idealism and opportunity -- Puritanism : Theology and religion ; The Reformation -- Luther, Zwingli, and Calvin ; The Reformation in England and Scotland ; Puritan versus Dissenter ; Puritan rule in New England ; After the theocracy -- Enlightenment in the colonies : The Age of Reason ; The Enlightenment in America ; Science in the colonies ; Political currents ; Progress -- the American dream -- Political patterns in the early republic : The rule of property ; Three key figures -- Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau ; The genesis of the Constitution ; The Federalist thesis -- Hamilton ; The agrarian antithesis -- Jefferson ; The equalitarian synthesis -- Jackson -- Unitarianism and Transcendentalism : Unitarianism -- rationality in religion ; Transcendentalism -- Theory and practice ; Transcendentalism and the people -- Expansionism : Behind the Appalachians ; The outward pressure ; Land grants and speculators ; The frontier -- democracy in action -- The triumph of industry : Farm or factory? …”


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The development of academic freedom in the United States, by Hofstadter, Richard, 1916-1970

Table of Contents: “…The age of the college / Richard Hofstadter : The European heritage : Corporate power in the middle ages ; Personal freedom in the middle ages ; Faith, reason, and communication ; The new learning and the new science ; The idea of toleration -- Harvard college from Dunster to Leverett : The colony and the college ; The Dunster case ; The decline of the holy commonwealth ; The emergence of Harvard liberalism -- The colonial colleges : The American pattern: denominational sponsorship ; The American pattern: lay government ; The beginnings of lay government ; The archetypes of lay government ; Support and control -- Religion, reason, and revolution : Sectarianism and restraint ; Sectarianism at yale ; Unitarianism at Harvard ; The secularization of learning ; Politics and revolution -- The old-time college, 1800-1860 : The great retrogression ; The old college system ; Presbyterians and partisans ; Slavery and abolition ; The idea of academic freedom -- The age of the university / Walter P. …”


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