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Forrest McDonald

About the Author

Forrest McDonald is Distinguished University Professor (Emeritus) at the University of Alabama.

In The Library:

• foreword: Cato: A Tragedy and Selected Essays (1710)
• editor: Empire and Nation: Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania (John Dickinson). Letters from the Federal Farmer (Richard Henry Lee) (1962)
• foreword: Government by Judiciary: The Transformation of the Fourteenth Amendment (1977)

Quotations:

• Forrest McDonald discusses the reading habits of colonial Americans and concludes that their thinking about politics and their shared values was based upon their wide reading, especially of history (1978) (17 April, 2006)
• Forrest McDonald argues that the Founding Fathers envisaged a new economic order based upon Lockean notions of private property and the creation of the largest contiguous area of free trade in the world (2006) (24 April, 2006)