Free Government in the Making: Readings in American Political Thought

by Alpheus Thomas Mason (Editor), Gordon E. Baker (Editor)

An authoritative and comprehensive collection of essays by America's most formative political thinkers, this classic anthology has now been thoroughly revised and updated. The fourth edition features extensive new coverage of the role women have played in the development of American political thought from 1790 to the present as well as new documentation on the contributions of minorities. With its clear introductory essays preceding original source selections and helpful chronological organization, this text provides students with keen insights into the growth and development of political theory and thought, particularly American political thought.

Genres: Nonfiction

Hardcover

First published October 24, 1985

About the author

A specialist in the American Constitution and the author of several judicial biographies, Alpheus Thomas Mason was McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence Emeritus at Princeton University. He received his BA from Dickinson College in 1920 and his PhD from Princeton University in 1923, and he taught at Princeton from 1925 until his retirement in 1968.