The American Republic

A new edition of Orestes Brownson’s classic political philosophy treatise, The American Republic. Orestes Augustus Brownson (1803 – 1876) was a New England intellectual and activist, and noted Catholic convert and writer. As described by scholar Peter J. Stanlis, “In the generation following the founding fathers of the American republic, Orestes Brownson, together with John C. Calhoun, was probably the most original and profound political thinker of the nineteenth century. Woodrow Wilson considered his most important book, The American Republic (1865), the best study of the American constitution.”