false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165539542m/5585.jpg 5585 4 Gordon S. Wood--winner of the Pulitzer Prize and professor of American history at Brown University--had no idea what he was getting into when he began this 653-page book. Innocently, he wanted to write a "monographic analysis of constitution-making in the Revolutionary era." Little did he know he would discover an intellectual world where a complete transformation of political thought was occurring, one that would create "a distinctly American system of politics." As Wood explains, "Beneath the variety and idiosyncrasies of American opinion there emerged a general pattern of beliefs about the social process--a set of common assumptions about history, society, and politics that connected and made significant seemingly discrete and unrelated ideas. Really for the first time I began to glimpse what late eighteenth-century Americans meant when they talked about living in an enlightened age." This original study of the American political system is a strong contribution to the scholarly studies of the events surrounding the nation's independence. 8995 1969 The Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787 (Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia) total:73|5:29|4:22|3:18|2:3|1:1| 73 294 129 6 4 0 false false Tue May 13 16:40:31 -0700 2008 Thu May 15 08:27:38 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Aug 10 18:37:26 -0700 2008 Sun Aug 10 18:39:26 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2004 Mon Jul 07 19:06:09 -0700 2008 Mon Jul 07 19:12:17 -0700 2008 4 0 false false Sat Feb 16 10:54:31 -0800 2008 Sat Feb 16 10:55:52 -0800 2008 0 0 false false Thu Feb 21 16:08:44 -0800 2008 Thu Feb 21 16:10:51 -0800 2008 3 0 false false Sun Mar 30 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Sep 30 05:31:17 -0700 2007 Mon Nov 24 11:02:22 -0800 2008 3 0 false false Sat Nov 07 20:43:49 -0800 2009 Sat Nov 07 20:43:49 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Wed Nov 04 11:42:19 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 04 11:42:19 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Sat Oct 31 00:21:35 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 31 00:21:35 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1992 Tue Oct 27 15:59:58 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 27 16:00:13 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Fri Oct 23 13:20:34 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 23 13:20:34 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Tue Oct 06 05:22:12 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 06 05:22:12 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Wed Sep 30 15:44:44 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 30 15:44:44 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Fri Sep 25 11:53:17 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 25 11:53:17 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Fri Sep 25 07:05:29 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 25 07:05:29 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Fri Sep 18 12:42:23 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 18 12:42:23 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Wed Sep 16 13:58:46 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 16 13:58:46 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Tue Sep 15 12:11:51 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 15 12:11:51 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Mon Sep 07 07:36:17 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 07 07:36:17 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Mon Aug 31 19:00:36 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 31 19:00:36 -0700 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=5585