The idea of America : reflections on the birth of the United States / Gordon S. Wood
Material type: TextPublication details: New York : Penguin Press , 2011Description: 385 p. ; 22 cmISBN:- 9780143121244
- 973.3 WOO
- E302.1 .W77 2011
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Rhetoric and reality in the American Revolution -- The legacy of Rome in the American Revolution -- Conspiracy and the paranoid style -- 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 --f rom ancient Rome to the European Enlightenment -- and the founders' attempts to forge an American democracy.
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