Book Audiobook 2011
The Idea of America
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- Publisher
- Penguin Audio
- Published
- 2011
- Politics and government
- Democracy
- Influence
- United States
- Republicanism
- History
- Politique et gouvernement
- Républicanisme
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.