INVENTING THE PEOPLE CL - Couverture rigide

Morgan, Edmund S.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0393025055 ISBN 13 : 9780393025057

Editeur : WW Norton & Co, 1988

Synopsis

Book by Morgan Edmund S

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

"The best explanation that I have seen for our distinctive combination of faith, hope and naiveté concerning the governmental process."? Michael Kamman, Washington Post This book makes the provocative case here that America has remained politically stable because the Founding Fathers invented the idea of the American people and used it to impose a government on the new nation. His landmark analysis shows how the notion of popular sovereignty? the unexpected offspring of an older, equally fictional notion, the "divine right of kings"? has worked in our history and remains a political force today.

Biographie de l'auteur

Edmund S. Morgan is the Sterling Professor Emeritus at Yale University and the recipient of the National Humanities Medal, the Pulitzer Prize, and the American Academy? s Gold Medal. The author of The Genuine Article; American Slavery, American Freedom; Benjamin Franklin; and American Heroes, among many others, Morgan lives with his wife in New Haven.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: WW Norton & Co
• Date d'édition: 1988
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0393025055
• ISBN 13: 9780393025057
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 320
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible