The idea of America : reflections on the birth of the United States / Gordon S. Wood.
By: Wood, Gordon S.
Material type: TextPublisher: New York : Penguin Press, 2011Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (p. [339]-371) and index.Description: 385 p. ; 25 cm.ISBN: 9781594202902; 1594202907.Subject(s): United States. Constitution | Democracy -- United States | Republicanism -- United States | United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Influence | United States -- Politics and government -- 1775-1783 | United States -- Politics and government -- 1783-1809DDC classification: 973.3 Online resources: Contributor biographical information | Publisher descriptionItem type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [339]-371) and index.
Rhetoric and reality in the American Revolution -- The legacy of Rome in the American Revolution -- Conspiracy and the paranoid style: causality and deceit in the Eighteenth century -- Interests and disinterestedness in the making of the Constitution -- The origins of American Constitutionalism -- The making of American democracy -- The radicalism of Thomas Jefferson and Thomas Paine considered -- Monarchism and republicanism in early America -- Illusions of power in the awkward era of federalism -- The American enlightenment -- A history of rights in early America -- Conclusion : the American revolutionary tradition, or why America wants to spread democracy around the world.
A Pulitzer Prize-winning historian of the American Revolution explains why it remains the most significant event in our history. In a series of elegant and illuminating essays, Wood explores the ideological origins of the revolution--from ancient Rome to the European Enlightenment--and the founders' attempts to forge an American democracy.
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