Elvin T Lim: 2 books
The Anti-Intellectual Presidency
The Decline of Presidential Rhetoric from George Washington to George W. Bush
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
Why has it been so long since an American president has effectively and consistently presented well-crafted, intellectually substantive arguments to the American public? Why have presidential utterances fallen from the rousing speeches of Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, Wilson, and FDR to a series of robotic...
The Lovers' Quarrel
The Two Foundings and American Political Development
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
The United States has had not one, but two Foundings. The Constitution produced by the Second Founding came to be only after a vociferous battle between Federalists and Anti-Federalists. The Federalists favored a relatively powerful central government, while the Anti-Federalists distrusted the concentration...