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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. Thorndike, Me. : Center Point Pub., [2011]
©2011

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 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  LP 973.3 WOOD    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Large Print Materials  LT 973.3 WOOD    Check Shelf
Edition Center Point large print edition.
Description 542 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
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.
Note GMD: large print.
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.
Genre/Form Large type books.
ISBN 9781611731620 library binding alkaline paper large print
1611731623 library binding alkaline paper large print
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