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

    An Introduction to Jefferson’s Philosophy of Revolution

    par 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 ... En savoir plus

    $31.69 CAD

  • James Madison's Constitution

    A Double Security and a Parchment Barrier

    In James Madison's Constitution, Eric T. Kasper and Howard Schweber have assembled a roster of ten prominent contributors to excavate Madison’s thinking about key concepts and issues over questions of what the Constitution requires, permits, and prohibits. Madison’s key role at the Constitution’s drafting was instrumental in forging the document into what it is today.In many areas, the modern ... En savoir plus

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    Pulitzer Prize Winner

    par 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 ... En savoir plus

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  • The Quartet

    Orchestrating the Second American Revolution, 1783-1789

    par Joseph J. Ellis ...
    NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Founding Brothers tells the unexpected story of America’s second great founding and of the men most responsible—Alexander Hamilton, George Washington, John Jay, and James Madison.Ellis explains of why the thirteen colonies, having just fought off the imposition of a distant centralized governing power, would decide to subordinate ... En savoir plus

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  • The Idea of America

    Reflections on the Birth of the United States

    par 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 ... En savoir plus

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  • America's Constitution

    A Biography

    par Akhil Reed Amar ...
    This “authoritative [and] important” (The New York Times Book Review) “biography” of America’s framing document explores topics ranging from presidential power and freedom of speech to birthright citizenship and beyond, explaining not only what the Constitution says but also why the Constitution says it.“Elegantly written, thorough but concise, and consistently enlightening . . . an indispensable ... En savoir plus

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  • John Adams and the Fear of American Oligarchy

    par 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 ... En savoir plus

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  • Slavery's Constitution

    From Revolution to Ratification

    "A historian finds the seeds of an inevitable civil war embedded in the 'contradictions, ambiguities, and silences' about slavery in the Constitution." — Kirkus ReviewsTaking on decades of received wisdom, David Waldstreicher has written the first book to recognize slavery's place at the heart of the US Constitution. Famously, the Constitution never mentions slavery. And yet, of its eighty-four ... En savoir plus

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  • Our Declaration

    A Reading of the Declaration of Independence in Defense of Equality

    par 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 ... En savoir plus

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  • The Nation That Never Was

    Reconstructing America's Story

    " P ersuasively argues that we must liberate ourselves from our sentimentalized attachment to the 'Founders' and even the Declaration of Independence" --Sanford Levinson, author of Our Undemocratic ConstitutionThere's a common story we tell about America: that our fundamental values as a country were stated in the Declaration of Independence, fought for in the Revolution, and made law in the ... En savoir plus

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  • Hamilton, Adams, Jefferson

    The Politics of Enlightenment and the American Founding

    par 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 ... En savoir plus

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  • Original Meanings

    Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

    par Jack N. Rakove ...
    PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • From abortion to same-sex marriage, today's most urgent political debates will hinge on this two-part question: What did the United States Constitution originally mean and who now understands its meaning best? Rakove chronicles the Constitution from inception to ratification and, in doing so, traces its complex weave of ideology and interest, showing how this document has ... En savoir plus

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