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A Nation So Conceived:\u00a0 Abraham Lincoln and the Paradox of Democratic Sovereignty<\/em><\/strong><\/a>
University Press of Kansas 2022<\/strong>

The culmination of years of work on Abraham Lincoln\u2019s political thought, Michael P. Zuckert\u2019s\u00a0A Nation So Conceived\u00a0argues for a coherent center to Lincoln\u2019s political ideology, a core idea that unifies his thought and thus illuminates his deeds as a political actor. That core idea is captured in the term \u201cdemocratic sovereignty.\u201d Zuckert provides invaluable guidance to understanding both Lincoln and the politics of the United States between 1845 and Lincoln\u2019s death in 1865 by focusing on roughly a dozen speeches that Lincoln made during his career.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Lincoln and Democratic Statesmanship<\/strong><\/em><\/a>
University Press of Kansas 2020<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMichael Zuckert has assembled a remarkable group of scholars whose grasp of Lincoln\u2019s principles and practices is matched by their deft understanding of ancient and modern conceptions of statesmanship. These insightful essays restore both the notion of democratic statesmanship to its proper place and Lincoln\u2019s status as a statesman. This collection is a must-read for students of American political thought and serves as a reminder that democracies can produce leaders who appeal to the better angels of our nature.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>

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The Spirit of Religion and the Spirit of Liberty<\/a><\/strong><\/em>
University of Chicago Press 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tocqueville\u2019s thesis on the relation between religion and liberty could hardly be timelier. From events in the Middle East and the spread of Islamist violence in the name of religion to the mandated coverage under the Affordable Care Act, the interaction between religion and politics has once again become central to political life. Tocqueville, facing the coming of a new social and political order within the traditional society that was France, faced this relation between politics and religion with freshness and relevance. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Leo Strauss and the Problem of Political Philosophy<\/a><\/em><\/strong>
University of Chicago Press 2014<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Zuckerts have done it again! Their new book establishes Strauss as being at the forefront of the great philosophic minds of the twentieth century. This book not only makes Strauss\u2019s writings clear and accessible but raises him above the shabby polemics to which his thought has too often been subject. Their careful readings, together with a mastery of the entire corpus of Strauss\u2019s work, will put this book on the top shelf for those interested in a serious engagement with Strauss the thinker.\u201d\u00a0 \u2014Steven B. Smith, Yale University<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>

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The Anti-Federalist Writings of the Melancton Smith Circle<\/a><\/em><\/strong>
The Liberty Fund 2009<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Anti-Federalist Writings of the Melancton Smith Circle\u00a0makes available for the first time a one-volume collection of Anti-Federalist writings that are commensurate in scope, significance, political brilliance, and depth with\u00a0The Federalist<\/em>. Included in this volume as an\u00a0appendix is a computational and contextual analysis that addresses the question of the authorship of two of the most well-known pseudonymous Anti-Federalist writings, namely,\u00a0Essays of a Federal Farmer<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Essays of Brutus<\/em>. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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The Truth About Leo Strauss<\/a><\/em><\/strong>
University of Chicago Press 2006<\/strong>

Catherine and Michael Zuckert\u2014both former students of Strauss\u2014guide readers here to a nuanced understanding of how Strauss\u2019s political thought fits into his broader philosophy. Challenging the ideas that Strauss was an inflexible conservative who followed in the footsteps of Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Carl Schmitt, the Zuckerts contend that Strauss\u2019s signature idea was the need for a return to the ancients. <\/p>\n<\/div>

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Protestantism and the American Founding<\/a><\/em><\/strong>
University of Notre Dame Press 2004<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This welcome new book explores the relationship between Protestant theology and American political thought of the founding era. It gathers together both new and well-known essays by scholars and outstanding thinkers in political philosophy, beginning with Michael Zuckert’s lead essay, derived from his work “The Natural Rights Republic, that the thought of the American founding era is best described as an amalgam of Protestantism and Lockean political philosophy.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Launching Liberalism on Lockean Political Philosophy<\/a><\/em><\/strong>
University Press of Kansas 2002<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this volume, prominent political theorist Michael Zuckert presents an important and path-breaking set of meditations on the thought of John Locke. In more than a dozen provocative essays, many appearing in print for the first time, Zuckert explores the complexity of Locke’s engagement with his philosophical and theological predecessors, his profound influence on later liberal thinkers, and his amazing success in transforming the political understanding of the Anglo-American world. <\/p>\n<\/div>

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Natural Rights and the New Republicanism<\/a><\/em>
Princeton University Press 1998<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“This exemplary work of historical reconstruction dramatically transforms our understanding of the genealogy of early American political thought. No one who deals with the eighteenth-century Anglo-American political tradition will be able to avoid the unsettling challenge of Zuckert’s original and painstakingly documented reinterpretation, for this is one of those rare scholarly achievements, at once capacious and meticulous, that forces all of us back to the drawing boards.” \u2014Thomas L. Pangle, William and Mary Quarterly<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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The Natural Rights Republic<\/a><\/em><\/strong>
University of Notre Dame Press 1997<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Michael Zuckert is one of the best historians of all the political theorists writing on the American Revolution and its sources. Deeply thoughtful and profoundly learned, The Natural Rights Republic is a critically important book – the most successful yet in the contemporary effort to explain how several ways of thinking came together to create the unique amalgam of political ideas on which America was founded.”\u00a0 \u2014Lance Banning, Department of History, University of Kentucky<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>

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Natural Right and Political Philosophy<\/a><\/em><\/strong>
Essays in Honor of Catherine Zuckert and Michael Zuckert, Edited by Ann Ward, Lee Ward<\/strong>

University of Notre Dame Press 2013<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“In their diversity and quality, these essays bear eloquent witness to the range of the Zuckerts’ interests, to the depth of their scholarship, and to the extent of their impact on colleagues and students. Everyone interested in political thought, from the Greeks to contemporary America, can profit from this excellent collection.” \u2014 William A. Galston, The Brookings Institution<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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