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The idea of America : reflections on the birth of the United States / Gordon S. Wood.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Circulating Collection E302.1 .W77 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wood, Gordon S.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States. Constitution.
- United States.
- Democracy--United States.
- Democracy.
- Republicanism--United States.
- Republicanism.
- United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Influence.
- United States--Politics and government--1775-1783.
- United States--Politics and government--1783-1809.
- Physical Description:
- 385 p. ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Penguin Press, 2011.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Kennedy fund bookplate.
- ISBN:
- 9781594202902
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