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The Idea of America: Reflections on the Birth of the United States
by Gordon S. Wood
by Gordon S. Wood
In many ways this book is an expansion of the ideas and themes Wood presented in his earlier work Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815 (Oxford History of the United States). His last chapter, an essay titled "The American Revolutionary Tradition, or Why America Wants to Spread Democracy Around the World" is must reading for anyone interested in the history and future of "American Exceptionalism".
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