The idea of America : reflections on the birth of the United States / Gordon S. Wood.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Penguin Press, 2011.Description: 385 p. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 1594202907 : HRD
  • 9781594202902
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 973.3 22
LOC classification:
  • E302.1 .W77 2011
Contents:
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 -- Themaking 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 inearly America -- Conclusion : the American revolutionary tradition, or why America wants to spread democracy around the world.
Summary: Evaluates the American Revolution as the nation's most definitive event, presenting essays that explore the ideological origins of the war, the founders' attempt to create an American democracy, and the gap between the views of the founders and present-day citizens.
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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 -- Interests and disinterestedness in the making of the Constitution -- The origins of American Constitutionalism -- Themaking 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 inearly America -- Conclusion : the American revolutionary tradition, or why America wants to spread democracy around the world.

Evaluates the American Revolution as the nation's most definitive event, presenting essays that explore the ideological origins of the war, the founders' attempt to create an American democracy, and the gap between the views of the founders and present-day citizens.

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