TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wood,Gordon S.
TI  - The idea of America: reflections on the birth of the United States 
SN  - 9780143121244
AV  - 002 E 302.1 W873i 2011
U1  - 973.3 
PY  - 2011///
CY  - New York
PB  - Penguin Press
KW  - United States
KW  - Constitution
KW  - Democracy
KW  - Republicanism
KW  - Republicanismo
KW  - Estados Unidos
KW  - Democracia
KW  - 20150400
KW  - History
KW  - Revolution, 1775-1783
KW  - Influence
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - 1775-1783
KW  - 1783-1809
KW  - Historia
KW  - Revolución, 1775-1783
KW  - Influencia
N1  - Includes bibliographical references 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
N2  - 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' attempts to forge an American democracy
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