WOOD, Gordon S.
The Rising Glory of America 1760-1820.
New York: George Braziller , 1971.
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First Edition of The Rising Glory of America 1760-1820; Signed by Gordon S. Wood
First edition of this primary source anthology drawing on sermons, essays, orations, and literary texts to illuminate how Americans of the Revolutionary and early republican eras articulated their emerging sense of national identity and cultural destiny. Octavo, original publisher's cloth, illustrated. Boldly signed by Gordon S. Wood on the title page. Near fine in a very good dust jacket with rubbing, chipping, and a couple of small closed tears to the front panel.
The Rising Glory of America, 1760-1820, edited by Gordon S. Wood, is a documentary anthology first published by George Braziller in 1971 as part of "The American Culture" series. Rather than a monograph, the volume is a carefully curated collection of primary source writings - sermons, essays, orations, and literary texts - drawn from the decades spanning the Revolution and the early republic, assembled to illuminate how Americans of that era understood and articulated their sense of national destiny and cultural promise. Contributors include John Adams, Samuel Hopkins, John Warren, Isaac Backus, Richard McNemar, and Thaddeus Mason Harris, among others, representing the religious, political, and literary voices through which an emerging national identity was expressed. Wood's editorial framework situates the collection within the broader intellectual project for which he is best known: tracing the ideological and cultural currents that gave shape to American republican thought. Wood is a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and Brown University professor whose scholarship on the founding era includes The Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787 (1969), winner of the Bancroft Prize, and The Radicalism of the American Revolution (1992).
The Rising Glory of America 1760-1820.
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