American Exceptionalism provokes intense debates culturally, economically, politically, and socially. This collection, edited by Charles W. Dunn of Regent University's Robertson School of Government, brings together analysis of the idea's origins, history and future. Contributors include:Hadley Arkes, Michael Barone, James W. Ceasar, Charles W. Dunn, Daniel L. Dreisbach, T. David Gordon, Steven F. Hayward, Hugh Heclo, Marvin J. Folkertsma, William Kristol, and George H. Nash.While many now argue against the policies and ideology of American Exceptionalism as antiquated and expired, the authors collected here make the bold claim that a closer reading of our own history reveals that there is still an exceptional aspect of American thought, identity and government worth advancing and protecting. It will be the challenge of the coming American generations to both refine and examine what we mean when we call America "exceptional," and this book provides readers a first step towards a necessary understanding of the exceptional purpose, progress and promise of the United States of America.

Product Description: Thirty years ago, Ronald Reagan rode a wave of patriotism to the White House by calling for a return to what he considered to be traditional American values―personal liberty, free markets, and limited government. After the cultural struggles and generational clashes of the 1960s and 70s, it appeared that many Americans were eager to abide by Reagan's set of core American principles...read more

Product Description: A former Sunday school teacher and Hollywood actor, Ronald Reagan was an unlikely candidate for president. His charisma, conviction, and leadership earned him the governorship of California, from which he launched his successful bid to become the fortieth president of the United States in 1980...read more

Product Description: As the most prominent figure of the U.S. government, the president is under constant scrutiny from both his colleagues and the American people. Questions about the proper role of the president have been especially prevalent in the media during the current economic crisis...read more

Product Description: Should parents receive vouchers to send their children to religious schools? What limits―if any―should the government place on abortion? Should the government permit and fund stem cell research? Should religious organizations have the right to prohibit the employment of homosexuals? Should public schools teach both creationism and evolution? How does religion influence our political stances on gay marriage? The death penalty? Immigration? The issues are real...read more

Product Description: Once on the wings of the American political stage, conservatism now plays a leading role in public life, thanks largely to the dynamic legacy of Ronald Reagan. But despite conservatism’s emergence as a powerful political force in the last several decades, misunderstandings abound about its meaning and nature—economically, internationally, philosophically, politically, religiously, and socially...read more

Product Description: The Seven Laws of Presidential Leadership presents the traditional  topics of history, rhetoric, politics, Congress, the Courts, and other subjects through an innovative method that sparks student interest and increases teaching options...read more

Product Description: No subject arouses more passionate controversy than faith and freedom. From the rise of Islam and terrorism to the demise of America's religious traditions, these issues cut to the heart and soul of America and her position in the world...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The previous edition of The Conservative Tradition in America presented the first full-scale survey of American conservatism written since the 1950's. Now brought up-to-date and including a new chapter and bibliography, the revised edition traces the many political and philosophical strands of conservatism from their origins to the present...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Never before have Americans been more concerned about the moral dimensions of presidential leadership. What role should morality play in the decision making of our most powerful elected official? What did the Founders think about the significance of morality in this cherished political institution? Does the private behavior of a president influence his or her ability to lead our nation? In The Scarlet Thread of Scandal, eminent scholar Charles W...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The only American Government text to take a comparative approach, Dunn and Slann's text doesn't simply offer comparative material in boxed features, but integrates it throughout the text to help students gain a deeper and more complete vision of our government by comparing and contrasting it to the governments of other nations...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Examining how the US government works, this book covers concepts, principles and structures. The authors concentrate on making students think critically about how democracy in America functions and examine how the US government compares with those in other countries.

Bloomfield and Dunn describe the varying roles which "poets" have historically filled within society, whether ancient, medieval, or pre-modern and identify the key functions of the poet figure. He (or sometimes she) supports the ruler and is in turn rewarded for a central service to the tribe; he exercises his authority by an apparently magical understanding of the past, present, and future; and, whenever called upon to perform an official rite, he knows how to wield the appropriate traditional, esoteric utterances. In order to illustrate the ways in which this kind of poetic function can be seen to have been exercised in early Irish literature, pre-modern Scottish Gaelic, early Welsh, early Norse and Old English the authors draw on a wide-range of texts. The study concludes with an examination of the implications of their findings for twentieth century readers exploring the utterances of poets remote from them in time or space.

Discusses the conservative tradition in American politics in its political, economic, and religious aspects

Product Description: First published in 1990. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Product Description: Excellent condition. Looks unread. Pages are clean. Binding is tight. Small happy face sticker on the first page. 193 pages. Edition 1989. Published by: CQ Press (J-22)

Product Description: Book by Dunn, Charles W.

"In American Political Theology, Charles W. Dunn . . . has admirably fulfilled his modest and useful intention to provide in textbook fashion a dispassionate exposition `of how, why, and when' politics and religion intersect.' This is no small feat in treating a subject so vast, undefined, and fraught with intense conflict, and the work can be of considerable usefulness to teachers at any level who need a clear historical and theoretical analysis of the intersection as it has presented itself in the experience of our country. . . . The essays are, for the most part, intellectually and ethically muscular and will well repay reading by anyone who is already fairly well-grounded in the Founding." Chronicles

Product Description: Book by Dunn, Charles W.

Product Description: In this book Professor Dunn tells of the experiences of the many Gaelic-speaking people of the Highlands and Western Islands who emigrated from Scotland to North America between the end of the eighteenth and the middle of the nineteenth centuries, and their descendants in Nova Scotia He has consulted with care and thoroughness many sources...read more