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<pre>Beyond the Revolution: A History of American Thought from Paine to Pragmatism
âBeyond the Revolution is one of the most complete, wide-ranging, readable, and insightful accounts of American intellectuals we have ever had. It deserves to be recognized as a major classic history of American intellectuals to be read by every thinking American.â
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From 1776, when Citizen Tom Paine declared, âThe birthday of a new world is at hand,â America was unique in world history. A nation suffused with the spirit of explorers, constantly replenished by immigrants, and informed by a continual influx of foreign ideas, it was the worldâs first truly cosmopolitan civilization.
In Beyond the Revolution, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian William H. Goetzmann tells the story of Americaâs greatest thinkers and creators, from Paine and Jefferson to Melville and William James, showing how they built upon and battled one anotherâs ideas in the critical years between 1776 and 1900. An unprecedented work of intellectual history by a master historian, this book will be essential reading for anyone interested in the origins of our national culture.
480 pages
Publisher: Basic Books; 1 edition (February 23, 2009)
Language: English </pre>
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