The American Enlightenment, 1750-1820This concise literary history of the American Enlightenment captures the varied and conflicting voices of religious and political conviction in the decades when the new nation was formed. Robert Ferguson's trenchant interpretation yields new understanding of this pivotal period for American culture. |
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... figure ) in order to obtain the consent of the governed . It is not too much to suggest that Washington is the country in this moment . What exactly do we see in the midst of so many compounded ironies ? At the center stands the ...
... figure ) in order to obtain the consent of the governed . It is not too much to suggest that Washington is the country in this moment . What exactly do we see in the midst of so many compounded ironies ? At the center stands the ...
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... figure in a hagiography that identifies America to other Americans . By the 1820s Daniel Webster and other civic orators will have arranged these beacons of light into fixed and eternal constellations that guide the nation . As the ...
... figure in a hagiography that identifies America to other Americans . By the 1820s Daniel Webster and other civic orators will have arranged these beacons of light into fixed and eternal constellations that guide the nation . As the ...
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... figure of this sort becomes a simulacrum of angers completed or at least stilled . Cast together in the role of founding fathers , these figures acquire the status of achievers almost before they are fully recognized as rebels . Soon ...
... figure of this sort becomes a simulacrum of angers completed or at least stilled . Cast together in the role of founding fathers , these figures acquire the status of achievers almost before they are fully recognized as rebels . Soon ...
Contents
What Is Enlightenment? Some American Answers | 22 |
Religious Voices | 44 |
Writing the Revolution | 80 |
Copyright | |
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