Revolutionaries
Subtitle: inventing an American nation
By: Jack Rakove
Publisher: William Heinemann
Published: 2010
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 487
ISBN-13: 9780434010578
Subjects: History; Revoluties; Revolutionairen
Description: "Jack Rakove offers a new and revealing perspective on the men who invented America. Much has been written about the military struggle that led to independence, but Rakove is far more concerned with the intellectual one: the competing views of politics, war, diplomacy and society that shaped the very idea of an American nation. Spanning the most crucial decades of the country's birth, from 1772 to 1792, Revolutionaries uses the stories of famous (and not so famous) men to capture - in a way no single biography ever could - the intensely creative period of the republic's founding"--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 447-464) and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue: the world beyond Worcester; title: Part I: The crisis; title: Advocates for the cause; title: The revolt of the moderates; title: The character of a general; title: Part II: Challenges; title: The first constitution makers; title: Vain liberators; title: The diplomats; title: Part III: Legacies; title: The optimist abroad; title: The greatest lawgiver of modernity; title: The state builder.