Providing an often-overlooked historical perspective, Gordon Lloyd and David Davenport show how the New Deal of the 1930s established the framework for today’s U.S. domestic policy and the ongoing debate between progressives and conservatives. They examine the pivotal issues of the dispute, laying out the progressive-conservative arguments between Hoover and Roosevelt in the 1930s and illustrating how those issues remain current in public policy today. The authors detail how Hoover, alarmed by the excesses of the New Deal, pointed to the ideas that would constitute modern U.S. conservatism and how three pillars—liberty, limited government, and constitutionalism—formed his case against the New Deal and, in turn, became the underlying philosophy of conservatism today. Illustrating how the debates between Franklin Roosevelt and Herbert Hoover were conducted much like the campaign rhetoric of liberals and conservatives in 2012, Lloyd and Davenport assert that conservatives must, to be a viable part of the national conversation, “go back to come back”—because our history contains signposts for the way forward.

The New Deal & Modern American Conservatism: A Defining Rivalry (Hoover Institution Press Publications)

Gordon Lloyd

David Davenport

Hoover Institution Press

A Crate Full Of Lemons is a fast-paced adventure story about twin brothers who are math geniuses and who, through some dire twists of fate, find themselves setting out on a desperate mission to save themselves and their family. A Crate Full of Lemons is an action story with a literary heart.

A Crate Full Of Lemons

Literature & Fiction

Action & Adventure

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This volume presents the documents necessary to understand the essential ideas and debates that shaped the founding of the American civic order. It begins with documents that display both the problems that led to the calling of the Constitutional Convention and the ideas that shaped the debates in Philadelphia. It concludes with two documents - Washington's Inaugural Address and Madison's speech on the amendments to the Constitution (the Bill of Rights) - that show the new government beginning to function. The heart of the book is the documents presenting the debates at the Constitutional Convention and the debates over ratification. With its document introductions, annotations, and helpful appendices, this collection is an indispensable resource for understanding the American Founding. The Ashbrook Center restores and strengthens the capacities of the American people for constitutional self-government. Ashbrook teaches students and teachers across our country what America is and what she represents in the long history of the world. Offering a variety of programs and resources, Ashbrook is the nation's largest university-based educator in the enduring principles and practice of free government.

The American Founding: Core Documents

Ashbrook Center

This collection of documents on the Constitutional Convention explains why the Convention was held and illustrates the ideas of government and politics that the delegates carried with them to Philadelphia. Its pages recount the Convention's critical debates over the purpose and powers of government, the nature of representation, and the relation between the states and the central government. They recount as well the way that slavery and the interests of the various states shaped those debates. With its document introductions, annotations, and helpful appendices, this collection is an indispensable resource for understanding the Constitution. This volume is the second of four volumes covering the Founding in the Ashbrook Center's document series. The American Founding, already published, is the capstone of the four. The others - this collection, and volumes on the ratification of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights (forthcoming) tell aspects of the founding story in more detail.

The Constitutional Convention: Core Documents

This collection of documents on the Bill of Rights is part of the Ashbrook Center's extended series of document collections covering major periods, themes, and institutions in American history and government. It is the third of four volumes that will cover the Founding of the United States. The American Founding, already published, is the capstone of the four. The others-the volume on the Constitutional Convention, also already published; this collection; and a volume on the ratification of the Constitution, which will follow it-tell aspects of the founding story in more detail. The documents in this collection provide historical background on the rights the colonists claimed to hold, and why and how those rights became the rights enshrined in the first ten amendments to the Constitution. It focuses on the argument over whether a bill of rights was necessary, as this argument revealed much about the founding generation's view of government and, in particular, the federal arrangement in the Constitution. Together, the four volumes on the Founding provide the essentials for understanding the Founding as the Founders understood it.

The Bill of Rights: Core Documents

Ashbrook Press