The idea of America : reflections on the birth of the United States
2011
973.3 W863 2011
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Title
The idea of America : reflections on the birth of the United States
Published
New York : Penguin Press, 2011.
Description
385 p. ; 25 cm.
Call Number
973.3 W863 2011
System Control No.
(OCoLC)678537224
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [339]-371) 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.
L2011M87
Author explores the ideological origins of the revolution--from ancient Rome to the European Enlightenment--and the founders' attempts to forge an American democracy.
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.
L2011M87
Author 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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