Wood, Gordon S. <br/><br/>
The idea of America :  reflections on the birth of the United States / 
Gordon S. Wood. 
 - New York :  Penguin Press,  2011. 
 - 385 p. ;  25 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Rhetoric 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. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781594202902 1594202907 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2010045829 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Corporate Names: </label><br/>United States. Constitution. 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Democracy--United States.<br/>Republicanism--United States.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>United States--History--Influence.--Revolution, 1775-1783<br/>United States--Politics and government--1775-1783.<br/>United States--Politics and government--1783-1809.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>E302.1  / .W77 2011 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>973.3