Revolutionary Founders: Rebels, Radicals, and Reformers in the Making of the Nation

ISBN 10: 0307271102 / ISBN 13: 9780307271105

Verlag: Knopf, 2011

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In a collection of 22 essays, leading historians explore the founding fathers' more radical contemporaries--including Jill Lepore, Alan Taylor, Woody Holton and Melvin Patrick Ely--who advocated for true liberty for all at the United States' inception, including the abolition of slavery and equality despite race, class or gender.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: Alfred F. Young is professor emeritus of history at Northern Illinois University and was a senior research fellow at the Newberry Library in Chicago. He lives in Durham, North Carolina.

Gary B. Nash is professor of history emeritus and director of the National Center for History in the Schools at UCLA. He lives in Pacific Palisades, California.

Ray Raphael is the author of A People’s History of the American Revolution, Founding Myths, and several other books on the nation’s founding. He lives in northern California.

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Revolutionary Founders: Rebels, Radicals, ...
Verlag: Knopf
Erscheinungsdatum: 2011
Einband: Hardcover
Zustand: Very Good