E Pluribus Unum

Informationen zum Autor Forrest McDonald Klappentext ""An extraordinary book."" --Gordon S. Wood, Brown University Having won independence from England, America faced a new question: Would this be politically one nation, or would it not? "E Pluribus Unum" is a spirited look at how that question came to be answered.That the American people introduced a governmental system adequate to check the very forces unleashed by the Revolution--this, writes Professor McDonald, "was the miracle of the age. . . . The French, the Russians, the Italians, the Germans, all the planet's peoples in their turn, would become so unrestrained as to lose contact with sanity. The Americans might have suffered a similar history had they followed the lead of those who, in 1787 and 1788, spoke in the name . . . of popular 'rights.' But there were giants on the earth in those days, and they spoke in the name of the nation. . . ."Forrest McDonald is Professor of History at the University of Alabama.

Product details

• Authors: Forrest McDonald, Forrest McDonald
• Publisher: Liberty fund usa
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.05.1979
• EAN: 9780913966587
• ISBN: 978-0-913966-58-7
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 235 mm x 38 mm
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political theories and the history of ideas