The idea of America : reflections on the birth of the United States /
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&...
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New York :
Penguin Press,
2011.
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Table of 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.