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008			131031s2011 nyu b 001 0 eng
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020			_a9780143121244
050	0	0	_aE302.1 _b.W77 2011
082	0	0	_a973.3 WOO
100	1		_aWood, Gordon S.
245	1	4	_aThe idea of America _b: reflections on the birth of the United States _c/ Gordon S. Wood
260			_aNew York _b: Penguin Press _c, 2011
300			_a385 p. _c; 22 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index
505	0		_aRhetoric 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.
520			_aA 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.
610	1		_aUnited States _t. Constitution
650		0	_aDemocracy _x--United States
650		0	_aRepublicanism _z--United States
651			_aUnited States _x-History _y-Revolution, 1775-1783
651			_aUnited States _x-Politics and government _y-1775-1783
651			_aUnited States _x-Politics and government _y-1783-1809
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