Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787
by Gordon S. Wood
Wood explains changes that took place in American constitutional thinking between independence and the signing of the federal constitution
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“I remind my graduate students that Gordon Wood prepared The Creation of the American Republic as his doctoral dissertation, just to scare or, hopefully, inspire them. The fact that so much research and intellectual sophistication went into a PhD thesis is one of the staggering facts of modern intellectual life.” Read more...
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