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

By: Wood, Gordon SMaterial type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Penguin Press, 2011Description: 385 p. ; 25 cmISBN: 9781594202902Subject(s): 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 -- 1783-1809DDC classification: 973.3 LOC classification: E302.1 | .W77 2011
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.
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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.

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