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Author Wood, Gordon S.

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

Publication Info. New York : Penguin Press, 2011.

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 Bristol, Manross Branch - Non Fiction  973.3 W85    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department  973.3 WOO    Check Shelf
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  973.3 WOO    Check Shelf
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Adult Department  973.3 WOOD    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  973.3 WOOD    Check Shelf
 Mansfield, Main Library - Adult Nonfiction  973.3 WOOD    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Nonfiction  973.3 WOO    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  973.3 W85I    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  973.3 WOOD    Check Shelf
 Plainville Public Library - Non Fiction  973.3 WOO    DUE 05-13-24

Description 385 pages ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 -- 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.
Summary 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.
Subject United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Influence.
United States -- Politics and government -- 1775-1783.
United States -- Politics and government -- 1783-1809.
United States. Constitution.
Democracy -- United States.
Republicanism -- United States.
ISBN 9781594202902: $29.95
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