Advanced and Suggested Readings 

Samuel P. Huntington, "Paradigms of American Politics: Beyond the One, the Two, and the Many" 

Lewis Lapham "Who and What is American?"

Ray Allen Billington, "How the Frontier Shaped the American Character"

Frederick Jackson Turner The Significance of the Frontier on American History  

Hector St. John de Crevecoeur Letters from an American Farmer

Constitution of the Iroquois Nations  

Paranoia in American Politics: The Paranoid Style in American Politics By Richard Hofstadter:

The rational thinker versus the paranoid

George Sabine: "Two Democratic Traditions"

Locke in an isolated environment

Gordon Wood, "The Intellectual Origins of the American Revolution"

Presidency:

Roelofs,  The Prophetic President: Charisma in the American Political Tradition
Presidential Paradoxes
Presidential Greatness
Presidents in the Political Order

The Congress

Huntington, Congressional Responses to the Twentieth Century
Institutional Interaction: Roelofs's Myth and Ideology

Cycle Theory and American Institutions;

V.O. Key, A Theory of Critical Elections The Journal of Politics, Vol. 17, No. 1. (Feb., 1955), pp. 3-18;

Walter Dean Burnham, The Changing Shape of the American Political Universe   The American Political Science Review, Vol. 59, No. 1. (Mar., 1965), pp. 7-28.

Presidential Regimes
 

Samuel Huntington: "Ideals v Institutions"

The Civil War:

Election of 1824
The Crittenden Amendment
The Constitution of the Confederate States;
Gettysburg Address
Lincoln's Second Inaugural
Election of 1876

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