Name: The Idea of America
ISBN: 9780143121244

Gordon S. Wood

Evaluates the American Revolution as the nation's most definitive event through essays that explore the war's origins, the founders' attempt to create a democracy, and the gap between the views of the founders and present-day citizens.

Reflections on the Birth of the United States

The Idea of America

Gordon S Wood

A Pulitzer Prize-winning author evaluates the American Revolution as the nation's most definitive event, presenting a series of essays that explores the ideological origins of the war, the founders' attempt to create an American democracy and the gap between the views of the founders and present-day citizens. 40,000 first printing.

The Idea of America Reflections on the Birth of the United States