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To Begin the World Anew: The Genius and Ambiguities of the American Founders

by Bernard Bailyn
₱589.05
To Begin the World Anew: The Genius and Ambiguities of the American Founders
To Begin the World Anew: The Genius and Ambiguities of the American Founders

Unveiling Founders' ingenuity and America's birth.

Anyone with an interest in American history would appreciate how Bernard Bailyn brings to life the innovative spirit of the Founding Fathers in "To Begin the World Anew." His examination is not just a recount of events but an exploration of the profound ideas and global significance behind the formation of the United States. It's an enlightening read that offers a new dimension of understanding to America's origins and the complexities of its key architects.

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To Begin the World Anew: The Genius and Ambiguities of the American Founders

by Bernard Bailyn
₱589.05
ISBN: 9780375413773
Authors: Bernard Bailyn
Publisher: Knopf
Date of Publication: 2003-01-07
Format: Hardcover
Goodreads rating: 3.71
(rated by 345 readers)

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With character sketches of key figures of the American Revolution and probes of its circumstances, Bernard Bailyn reveals the ambiguities, complexities, and uncertainties of the founding generation as well as their achievements. Using visual documentation—portraits, architecture, allegorical engravings—as well as written sources, Bailyn paints a complex picture of that distant but still remarkably relevant world. He explores the powerfully creative effects of the Founders’ provincialism and lays out in fine detail the mingling of gleaming utopianism and tough political pragmatism in Thomas Jefferson’s public career, and the effect that ambiguity had on his politics, political thought, and present reputation. Benjamin Franklin emerges as a figure as cunning in his management of foreign affairs and of his visual image as he was amiable, relaxed, and amusing in his social life. Bailyn shows why the Federalist papers have attained canonical status, not only as a penetrating analysis of the American Constitution but as a timeless commentary on the nature of politics and constitutionalism. Professor Bailyn concludes with an effort to locate the effect of the Founders’ imaginative thought on political reformers throughout the Atlantic world. The reception of their principles abroad, Bailyn writes, is as ambiguous as the personalities of the remarkably creative provincials who founded the American nation.
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