The Idea of America : : Reflections on the Birth of the United States
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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--from ancient Rome to the European Enlightenment--and the founders' attempts to forge an American democracy.
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PUBLISHED
New York : Penguin Press, 2011.
Year Published: 2011
Description: 385 p. ; 25 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781594202902
1594202907
SUBJECTS
United States.
Democracy.
Republicanism.
United States -- Influence. -- Revolution, 1775-1783
United States -- Politics and government -- 1775-1783.
United States -- Politics and government -- 1783-1809.