Freedom Just Around the Corner: A New American History 1585–1828

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Harper Collins, 2009 M03 30 - 667 páginas

This powerful reinterpretation of United States history is remarkable not only for its scholarship and historical breadth, but also in its assertion that the success of the country depends in a large part on the unique American character, which has shaped so many historic events.

In the first of a projected three-volume series, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Walter A. McDougall argues that the creation of the United States is the central event in the last four hundred years of world history. Freedom Just Around the Corner masterfully chronicles the earliest years of this nation, revealing that the genius behind the success of the United States is not based on the works and ideas of one person, but rather on the complex, irrepressible American spirit.

A professor of history at the University of Pennsylvania, Walter A. McDougall is the author of many books, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Heavens and the Earth and Let the Sea Make a Noise..., Throes of Democracy: The American Civil War Era 1829-1877, and Freedom Just Around the Corner: A New American History: 1585-1828. He lives in Pennsylvania with his wife and two teenage children.

“The chapter on the framing of the Constitution should be required reading ... Walter McDougall is a historian with a masterful grasp of his subject.” — Claude Crowley, Fort Worth Star-Telegram

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Saint George and the Dragon
17
Planters Patroons and Puritans
38
Barbadians Yorkers and Quakers
71
Papists Witches Scofflaws and Preachers
99
Germans Four Sorts of Britons and Africans
136
Soldiers Speculators and Savages
168
Sons of Liberty and TwoBottle Tyrants
202
Patriots Tories Slackers and Spies
239
Reluctant Nationalists Eager Imperialists
371
Engineers Pioneers Peddlers and Democrats
422
Travelers
492
Apotheosis and Apocalypse in American Culture c 1830
498
Notes
515
maps
556
Ratifying the Federal Constitution 309
565
Slavery in the United States 1821
597

Federalists Antis Vestals and Victims
280
Master Builders Party Men and a Rogue
321

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A professor of history at the University of Pennsylvania, Walter A. McDougall is the author of many books, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Heavens and the Earth and Let the Sea Make a Noise.... He lives in Pennsylvania with his wife and two teenage children.

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