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LEADER: 01673cam a2200313 a 4500
001 2011012796
003 DLC
005 20111004140223.0
008 110405s2011 meu d 000 0 eng
010 $a 2011012796
020 $a9781611731620 (library binding : alk. paper : large print)
040 $aDLC$cDLC
042 $apcc
043 $an-us---
050 10 $aE302.1$b.W77 2011b
082 00 $a973.3$222
100 1 $aWood, Gordon S.
245 14 $aThe idea of America :$breflections on the birth of the United States /$cGordon S. Wood.
250 $aLarge print ed.
260 $aThorndike, Me. :$bCenter Point Pub.,$c2011.
300 $a542 p. ;$c23 cm.
505 0 $aRhetoric 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.
651 0 $aUnited States$xHistory$yRevolution, 1775-1783$xInfluence.
651 0 $aUnited States$xPolitics and government$y1775-1783.
651 0 $aUnited States$xPolitics and government$y1783-1809.
610 20 $aUnited States.$tConstitution.
650 0 $aDemocracy$zUnited States.
650 0 $aRepublicanism$zUnited States.
650 0 $aLarge type books.