Peter C. Myers

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Peter C. Myers, a former visiting fellow in American political thought in The Heritage Foundation’s B. Kenneth Simon Center for Principles and Politics, is a professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. He is the author of “The Limits and Dangers of Civil Disobedience: The Case of Martin Luther King Jr.” and “Frederick Douglass: Race and the Rebirth of American Liberalism.”

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    Frederick Douglass’ American Identity Politics

    Peter C. Myers
    Mark Twain copied a friend’s remark into his notebook: “I am not an American; I am the American.” That is a claim—to be the American, the exemplary or representative American—that very few Americans could plausibly make. Twain himself could. Benjamin Franklin could and did. Abraham Lincoln could, but didn’t, though admirers made the claim for him. Surely some number of others…
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    Martin Luther King Jr. Dreamed of Realizing America’s Promise
    Peter C. Myers
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    Frederick Douglass Knew That Racial Identity Is No Antidote to Racial Injustice
    Peter C. Myers
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    Martin Luther King on the Limits of Civil Disobedience
    Peter C. Myers
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    Why Frederick Douglass Was an Exemplary American
    Peter C. Myers
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    Martin Luther King Jr. and the Struggle for Integration
    Peter C. Myers
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