The idea of America
Subtitle: reflections on the birth of the United States
By: Gordon S. Wood
Edition: Large print ed.
Publisher: Center Point Pub.
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Thorndike, Me
Language: eng
Number of pages: 542
ISBN-13: 9781611731620
Subjects: Politics and government; United States; Democracy; Republicanism; Large type books; Influence; History
Table of contents: title: Rhetoric and reality in the American Revolution; title: The legacy of Rome in the American Revolution; title: Conspiracy and the paranoid style; title: Interests and disinterestedness in the making of the Constitution; title: The origins of American Constitutionalism; title: The making of American democracy; title: The radicalism of Thomas Jefferson and Thomas Paine considered; title: Monarchism and republicanism in early America; title: Illusions of power in the awkward era of federalism; title: The American enlightenment; title: A history of rights in early America; title: Conclusion : the American revolutionary tradition, or why America wants to spread democracy around the world.