Description
An original interpretation of 'the people's two bodies' that illuminates the opposite attitudes toward compromise throughout the American founding.
About the Author
Alin Fumurescu is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Houston. In 2013, he won the American Political Science Association's Leo Strauss Award for the best doctoral dissertation in the field of political philosophy. He is the author of Compromise: A Political and Philosophical History (Cambridge, 2013), which has been translated into Chinese and Romanian. He has written several book chapters on compromise in edited volumes, and he is regularly invited guest speaker to international conferences on compromise.
Reviews
'The American political tradition has always been driven by principle, and yet somehow open to compromise. In this unprecedented work, Alin Fumurescu investigates how colonists and early Americans - largely through competing and evolving conceptualizations of 'the people' - re-imagined the nature of compromise, its potentials and perils. In light of our current, increasingly polarized and uncompromising politics, the nuanced analysis here is as timely as it is valuable.' Robert Martin, Hamilton College
'Meticulously researched, this work expands literature connecting Puritanical influences and the American founding to modern politics.' K. Casey, Choice
Book Information
ISBN 9781108415873
Author Alin Fumurescu
Format Hardback
Page Count 266
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Weight(grams) 500g
Dimensions(mm) 235mm * 158mm * 19mm