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History 5 1 /2 x 8 7 /16 400 pp.
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978-1-59420-290-2 On sale: 6/26/2012
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“ Mr. Wood is our premier student of the
Founding Era.” —The Wall Street Journal
The Idea of America
Reflections on the Birth of the United States
Gordon S. Wood
In The Idea of America, Pulitzer Prize–winning bestselling
historian Gordon S. Wood explains why the Revolution remains
the most important event in U.S. history. In a series of illuminating
essays, he explores the ideological origins of the Revolution—from
the culture of ancient Rome to the European Enlightenment—and
the founding fathers’ attempts to forge a democracy. He reflects
on the origins of American exceptionalism, the radicalism and
failed hopes of the founding generation, and the “terrifying gap”
between us and the men who created the democratic state we
often take for granted. This is a major work of history, more relevant
than ever at a moment when seemingly everyone is pondering
America’s fate.
n Gordon S. Wood’s last book, Empire of Liberty, was a New York Times
bestseller and a Pulitzer Prize finalist
n Also available as an e-book
“ Gordon S. Wood is more than an
American historian. He is almost
an American institution. . . . Wood
has done more than anyone to make the era of
the Revolution and early Republic into one of the
liveliest periods in American history.”
—The New York Times Book Review
goRdon s. wood is the Alva O. Way University Professor
Emeritus at Brown University. His book The Radicalism of the American
Revolution won the Pulitzer Prize and the Emerson Prize. He lives in
Providence, Rhode Island.
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