01701nam a2200337u 4500 678537224 OCoLC 20190501190042.0 ta 110629s2011 nyu b 001 0 eng d 2010045829 9781594202902 (OCoLC)678537224 DLC DLC n-us--- E302.1 .W77 2011 973.3 22 Wood, Gordon S. The idea of America : reflections on the birth of the United States / Gordon S. Wood. New York : Penguin Press, 2011. 385 p. ; 25 cm. 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 -- 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. Democracy United States. Republicanism United States. United States. Constitution United States History Revolution, 1775-1783 Influence. United States Politics and government 1775-1783. United States Politics and government 1783-1809. 15 9715 9715 0 0 ABELJ abelj NF 2016-10-27 1 973.3 WOOD 21596 2017-04-19 2017-03-22 29.95 2016-10-27 BOOK