WOOD, Gordon S.
The Idea of America: Reflections on the Birth of the United States.
Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press , 2011.
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"The history of liberty is a history of the limitation of governmental power, not the increase of it": The Easton Press First Limited Edition of The Idea of America; Signed by Pulitzer Prize winning author Gordon S. Wood
Signed limited first edition of this history of the American Revolution. Octavo, bound in full leather, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in five compartments within raised bands, elaborate gilt tooling to the front and rear panels with a vignette of an eagle to the center, all edges gilt, silk ribbon bound in, silk moire endpapers. One of 800 numbered copies, this is number 606. Boldly signed by Gordon S. Wood on the limitations page. In fine condition. Accompanied by a note about the author and a certificate of authenticity from the Easton Press laid in.
Gordon S. Wood is one of the most influential historians of the American Revolution and the early Republic, known for his profound analyses of the intellectual and ideological origins of the United States. A professor emeritus at Brown University, Wood has shaped the field through works such as The Creation of the American Republic, 1776–1787, which won the Bancroft Prize, and The Radicalism of the American Revolution, which received the Pulitzer Prize for History. In 'The Idea of America: Reflections on the Birth of the United States', Wood examines the ideological foundations of the American Revolution and the enduring legacy of republicanism in the nation’s political culture. Drawing on decades of scholarship, Wood argues that the Revolution was not merely a colonial rebellion but a radical rethinking of authority, sovereignty, and civic virtue, rooted in Enlightenment ideals.
The Idea of America: Reflections on the Birth of the United States.
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