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Pulitzer-Prize-winning author Bernard Bailyn brings us a book that combines portraits of American revolutionaries with a deft exploration of the ideas that moved them and still shape our society today.
Author : Bernard Bailyn
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 21,25 MB
Release : 2011-06-29
Category : History
ISBN : 030779847X
Pulitzer-Prize-winning author Bernard Bailyn brings us a book that combines portraits of American revolutionaries with a deft exploration of the ideas that moved them and still shape our society today.
Author : Fred Schwarz
Publisher :
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 50,49 MB
Release : 1972
Category : Anarchism
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Author : Randi Reisfeld
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 45,3 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Readers
ISBN : 9781490018966
Author : Maureen Alice Taylor
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 37,72 MB
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 9781606351826
This collection of images assigns faces to an un-illustrated war and tells the stories of our nation's Founding Fathers and Mothers. It is a much-needed contribution to the history of the American Revolution, the history of the early Republic, and the history of photography.
Author : Michael John
Publisher :
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 15,69 MB
Release : 1936
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Randi Reisfeld
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 31,38 MB
Release : 2015
Category :
ISBN : 9781490019444
During America's war for independence, ordinary people were forced to risk everything against enormous odds. Meet the leaders, rabble-rousers, visionaries, and everyday heroes who beat the odds and helped make America a land of freedom and opportunity.
Author : Bernard Bailyn
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 23,28 MB
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : History
ISBN : 0307429784
Two time Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Bernard Bailyn has distilled a lifetime of study into this brilliant illumination of the ideas and world of the Founding Fathers. In five succinct essays he reveals the origins, depth, and global impact of their extraordinary creativity. The opening essay illuminates the central importance of America’s provincialism to the formation of a truly original political system. In the chapters following, he explores the ambiguities and achievements of Jefferson’s career, Benjamin Franklin’s changing image and supple diplomacy, the circumstances and impact of the Federalist Papers, and the continuing influence of American constitutional thought throughout the Atlantic world. To Begin the World Anew enlivens our appreciation of how America came to be and deepens our understanding of the men who created it.
Author : Michael John (pseud.)
Publisher :
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 38,77 MB
Release : 1936
Category : Europe
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Author : Derek Jarrett
Publisher : Philip's
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 11,27 MB
Release : 1989-01-01
Category : Eighteenth century
ISBN : 9780540011865
Author : Ralph Lerner
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 45,3 MB
Release : 2000-11-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 080786286X
In this elegant extended essay, Ralph Lerner concentrates on the politics of enlightenment--the process by which those who sought to set minds free went about their work. Eighteenth-century revolutionaries in America and Europe, Lerner argues, found that a revolution aimed at liberating bodies and minds had somehow to be explained and defended. Lerner first investigates how the makers of revolution sought to improve their public's aspirations and chances. He pays particular attention to Benjamin Franklin, to the tone and substance of revolutionaries' appeals on both sides of the Atlantic, and to the preoccupations of first- and second-generation enlighteners among the Americans. He then unfolds the art by which later political actors, confronting the profound political, constitutional, and social divisions of their own day, drew upon and reworked their national revolutionary heritage. Lerner's examination of the speeches and writings of Edmund Burke, Abraham Lincoln, and Alexis de Tocqueville shows them to be masters of a political rhetoric once closely analyzed by Plato and his medieval student al-Farabi but now nearly forgotten. Originally published in 1994. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.