Sources

Here is a growing list of books that I have read, am reading now, or intend to read eventually. Many are referenced in items throughout A Citizen’s Syllabus.

Achen, Christopher H. and Larry M. Bartels, Democracy for Realists, Why Elections Do Not Produce Responsive Government, Princeton University Press, Princeton, 2016.

Ambler, Wayne (translator), Xenophon: The Anabasis of Cyrus, Cornell University Press, Ithaca, 2008.

Aristotle, Politics: A Treatise on Government, Project Gutenberg, 2013.

Aristotle, The Ethics of Aristotle (The Nicomachean Ethics), Project Gutenberg, 2018.

Bowen, Catherine Drinker, Miracle at Philadelphia: The Story of the Constitutional Convention May to September 1787, Little Brown and Company, New York, 1986.

Butler, H.E. (editor), The Chronicle of Jocelyn of Brakelond, Oxford University Press, New York, 1949.

Carlyle, Thomas, Past and Present, Ward, Lock & Bowden, Ltd., London, 1897.

Carr, Caleb (editor), Ulysses S. Grant: Personal Memoirs, The Modern Library, New York, 1999.

Chernow, Ron, Grant, Penguin Press, New York, 2017.

Chernow, Ron, Alexander Hamilton, Penguin Press, New York, 2004.

Chesterton, G. K., What’s Wrong With the World, Project Gutenberg), 1910.

Eskridge, William N. and Sanford V. Levinson (editors), Constitutional Stupidities, Constitutional Tragedies, NYU Press, New York, 1998.

Faulks, Keith, Citizenship, Routledge, London and New York, 2000.

Ford, Henry Jones, The Rise and Growth of American Politics: A Sketch of Constitutional Development, MacMillan, New York, 1900.

Frohnen, Bruce (editor), The American Republic: Primary Sources, Liberty Fund, Indianapolis, 2002.

Graber, Mark A., Sanford Levinson and Mark Tushnet (editors), Constitutional Democracy in Crisis?, Oxford University Press, London, 2018.

Haidt, Jonathan, The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion, Random House, 2012.

Harris, Malcolm, Kids These Days: The Making of the Millennials, Back Bay Books, New York, 2017.

Heater, Derek, Citizenship: The Civic Ideal in World History, Politics and Education, Manchester University Press, Manchester and New York, 2004.

Hofstadter, Richard (editor), Great Issues in American History, Volume II: From the Revolution to the Civil War, 1765-1865, Vintage Books, New York, 1958.

Hofstadter, Richard, Anti-Intellectualism in American Life, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1963.

Hofstadter, Richard, and Beatrice K Hofstadter (editor), Great Issues in American History, Volume III: From Reconstruction to the Present Day, 1864-1981, Vintage Books, New York, 1982.

Johnson, Simon and James Kwak, White House Burning: The Founding Fathers, Our National Debt, and Why It Matters to You, Pantheon Books, New York, 2012.

Kesler, Charles R. (editor), The Federalist Papers, Signet Classic, New York, 2003.

Ketcham, Ralph (editor), The Anti-Federalist Papers, Signet Classic, New York, 2003.

Kirk, Russell, The Roots of American Order, ISI Books, Wilmington, DE, 2008.

Larson, Edward J. and Michael P. Winship, The Constitutional Convention: A Narrative History From the Notes of James Madison, The Modern Library, New York, 2005.

Lepore, Jill, These Truths: A History of the United States, W.W. Norton and Company, New York, 2018.

Levinson, Sanford, An Argument Open to All: Reading the Federalist in the 21st Century, Yale University Press, New Haven, 2015.

Lewis, C.S., The Abolition of Man, HarperCollins, New York, 2001.

Lewis, C.S., Mere Christianity, HarperCollins, New York, 1980.

Locke, John, Of Civil Government (Second Treatise), Gateway Edition, Chicago, 1966.

Machiaveli, Niccolo, The Prince, Project Gutenberg, 2019.

MacWilliams, Matthew C., On Fascism: 12 Lessons from American History, St. Martin’s Publishing, New York, 2020.

Madison, James, His Notes on the Constitutional Debates of 1787, public domain, Kindle edition.

Madison, James H. The Indiana Way: A State History, Indiana University Press, Bloomington, 1986.

Madison, James H., Hoosiers: A New History of Indiana, Indiana University Press, Bloomington, 2014.

Mann, Thomas E., and Norman J. Ornstein, It’s Even Worse Than It Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided with the New Politics of Extremism, Basic Books, New York, 2012.

Mansfield, Harvey C. and Delba Wintrop (editors), Alexis de Tocqueville: Democracy in America, The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2000.

McPherson, James, Battle Cry of Freedom, Oxford University Press, New York, 1988.

Nichols, Tom, The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why it Matters, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2017.,

Packer, George, Last Best Hope: America in Crisis and Renewal, Farrer, Strauss and Giroux, 2021.

Padover, Saul K. (editor), The Complete Madison: His Complete Writings, Harper & Brothers, New York, 1953.

Paul, Jean-Michael, The Economics of Discontent: From Failing Elites to The Rise of Populism, Kindle Edition, 2019.

Plato, The Republic, Project Gutenberg, 2019.

Pratt, Fletcher, A Short History of the Civil War: Ordeal by Fire, Dover Publications, Mineola, New York, 1997.

Putnam, Robert D., The Upswing: How America Came together a Century Ago and How We Can do It Again, Simon and Schuster, New York, 2020.

Rawls, John, A Theory of Justice, Harvard University Press, Boston, 1971.

Redman, Eric, The Dance of Legislation: An Insider's Account of the Workings of the United States Senate, University of Washington Press, Seattle, 1973.

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, The Social Contract & Discourses, Project Gutenberg, 2014.

Stewart, David O., The Summer of 1787, Simon & Schuster, New York, 2008.

Stokes, Philip, Philosophy: 100 Essential Thinkers, Arcturus, London, 2015.

Taylor, Astra, Democracy May Not Exist: But We’ll Miss It When It’s Gone, Metropolitan Books, new York, 2019.

Tomasky, Michael, If We Can Keep It: How the Republic Collapsed and How It Might Be Saved, W.W. Norton and Company, New York, 2019.

Ver Steeg, Clarence L., and Richard Hofstadter (editor), Great Issues in American History, Volume I: From Settlement to Revolution, 1584-1776, Vintage Books, New York, 1969.

Vile, John R., Essential Supreme Court Decisions: Summaries of Leading Cases in US Constitutional Law, Rowman & Littlefield, London and New York, 2018.

Wenz, Peter S., Beyond Red and Blue: How Twelve Political Philosophies Shape American Debates, The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2009.

White, Ronald C., American Ulysses: A Life of Ulysses S. Grant, Random House, New York, 2016.

Wollstonecraft, Mary, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, Project Gutenberg, 2015.

Only books are references here. Articles from journals, magazines and newspapers are cited with links in the text.