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Genre/Form: | Narrative non-fiction Early works History Early works to 1800 |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Matthew Stewart |
ISBN: | 9780393064544 0393064549 9780393351293 0393351297 |
OCLC Number: | 879642283 |
Notes: | Includes index. |
Awards: | Short-listed for National Book Awards (Nonfiction) 2014 |
Description: | vii, 566 pages ; 25 cm |
Contents: | The dirty little screw of the American Revolution -- Pathologies of freedom -- Epicurus's dangerous idea -- On the genealogy of nature's god -- Self-evident truths -- The pursuit of happiness -- The empire of reason -- The religion of freedom. |
Responsibility: | Matthew Stewart. |
Abstract:
A startling, paradigm-shifting exploration of the revolutionary part of the American Revolution: the ideas that changed the world for good.
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"...splendidly polemical account of the philosophy of the founding fathers..." -- Prospect
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