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  • Locke-ing and Un-Locke-ing the Declaration of Independence

    An Introduction to Jefferson’s Philosophy of Revolution

    by Dr. Lynn Uzzell ...
    An introduction to the philosophy of revolution that Thomas Jefferson expressed in the Declaration of Independence, tracing key ideas to John Locke and other influences.Even in Thomas Jefferson's lifetime comparisons were being drawn between the Declaration of Independence and John Locke's Second Treatise of Government. Notwithstanding the unmistakable similarities between the assertions found in ... Read more

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  • The Radicalism of the American Revolution

    Pulitzer Prize Winner

    by Gordon S. Wood ...
    PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • In a grand and immemsely readable synthesis of historical, political, cultural, and economic analysis, a prize-winning historian describes the events that made the American Revolution. Gordon S. Wood depicts a revolution that was about much more than a break from England, rather it transformed an almost feudal society into a democratic one, whose emerging realities ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Idea of America

    Reflections on the Birth of the United States

    by Gordon S. Wood ...
    **“Exceptional... a remarkable study of the key chapter of American history and its ongoing influence on American character.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)The Pulitzer Prize-winning historian of the Founding Era reflects on the birth of American nationhood and explains why the American Revolution remains so essential to our identity and culture.**For Gordon S. Wood, the American Revolution is ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

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  • John Adams and the Fear of American Oligarchy

    by Luke Mayville ...
    Why the American Founding Father feared the political power of the rich―and how his ideas illuminate today's debates about inequality and its consequences."A most timely, valuable, and enlightening book. It shows conclusively that Adams was one of the sharpest critics of oligarchy among the American founders and, indeed, in the history of political thought. The book will generate much-needed ... Read more

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  • Our Declaration

    A Reading of the Declaration of Independence in Defense of Equality

    by Danielle Allen ...
    “A tour de force. . . . No one has ever written a book on the Declaration quite like this one.” —Gordon S. Wood, New York Review of BooksOur Declaration has already come to be regarded as a seminal work that reinterprets the promise of American democracy through our founding text. On the 250th anniversary of the Declaration and with over a decade of hindsight, renowned political philosopher ... Read more

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  • Hamilton, Adams, Jefferson

    The Politics of Enlightenment and the American Founding

    by Darren Staloff ...
    An intellectual history of three Founding Fathers whose unique approaches to the Enlightenment helped shape America.American historian Darren Staloff delves into the political and intellectual lives of Alexander Hamilton, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson to reveal how they embodied the collision of Europe's grand Enlightenment project with the birth of a young nation. These three very different ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787

    by Gordon S. Wood ...
    Series series Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press
    “One of the half dozen most important books ever written about the American Revolution.” — New York Times Book Review“During the nearly two decades since its publication, this book has set the pace, furnished benchmarks, and afforded targets for many subsequent studies. If ever a work of history merited the appellation 'modern classic,' this is surely one.” — William and Mary Quarterly“[A] ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

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  • The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution

    Fiftieth Anniversary Edition

    by Bernard Bailyn ...
    **The fiftieth-anniversary edition of the Pulitzer and Bancroft Prize-winning classic.“One cannot claim to understand the Revolution without having read this book.” —New York Times Book Review**“[This book] influenced an entire generation of historians. For many, it remains the most persuasive interpretation of the Revolution.” —Gordon S. Wood, Wall Street JournalAwarded both the Pulitzer and the ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

  • The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution

    Enlarged Edition

    by Bernard Bailyn ...
    To the original text of what has become a classic of American historical literature, Bernard Bailyn adds a substantial essay, ”Fulfillment,” as a Postscript. Here he discusses the intense, nation-wide debate on the ratification of the Constitution, stressing the continuities between that struggle over the foundations of the national government and the original principles of the Revolution. This ... Read more

    $25.69 USD

  • Toward Democracy

    The Struggle for Self-Rule in European and American Thought

    by James T. Kloppenberg ...
    In this magnificent and encyclopedic overview, James T. Kloppenberg presents the history of democracy from the perspective of those who struggled to envision and achieve it. The story of democracy remains one without an ending, a dynamic of progress and regress that continues to our own day. In the classical age "democracy" was seen as the failure rather than the ideal of good governance. ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

  • The Founding Fathers and the Place of Religion in America

    by Frank Lambert ...
    How did the United States, founded as colonies with explicitly religious aspirations, come to be the first modern state whose commitment to the separation of church and state was reflected in its constitution? Frank Lambert explains why this happened, offering in the process a synthesis of American history from the first British arrivals through Thomas Jefferson's controversial presidency.Lambert ... Read more

    $29.59 USD

  • Inventing a Christian America

    The Myth of the Religious Founding

    by Steven K. Green ...
    Among the most enduring themes in American history is the idea that the United States was founded as a Christian nation. A pervasive narrative in everything from school textbooks to political commentary, it is central to the way in which many Americans perceive the historical legacy of their nation. Yet, as Steven K. Green shows in this illuminating new book, it is little more than a myth. In ... Read more

    $16.19 USD

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