| Inventing the People: The Rise of Popular Sovereignty in England and America Revised Edition Contributor(s): Morgan, Edmund S. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0393306232 ISBN-13: 9780393306231 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company OUR PRICE: $23.70 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 1989 Annotation: "The best explanation that I have seen for our distinctive combination of faith, hope and naivete concerning the governmental process." -Michael Kamman, Washington Post |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - Revolutionary Period (1775-1800) - Political Science | History & Theory - General - Political Science | American Government - General |
| Dewey: 320.2 |
| LCCN: 00000000 |
| Lexile Measure: 1570 |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5" W x 8" (0.80 lbs) 320 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book makes the provocative case here that America has remained politically stable because the Founding Fathers invented the idea of the American people and used it to impose a government on the new nation. His landmark analysis shows how the notion of popular sovereignty--the unexpected offspring of an older, equally fictional notion, the divine right of kings--has worked in our history and remains a political force today. |
Contributor Bio(s): Morgan, Edmund S.: - Edmund S. Morgan (1916-2013) was the Sterling Professor Emeritus at Yale University and the recipient of the National Humanities Medal, the Pulitzer Prize, and the American Academy's Gold Medal. The author of The Genuine Article; American Slavery, American Freedom; Benjamin Franklin; and American Heroes, among many others. |