Meaning of Independence - Softcover

Morgan, Henry

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0393008967 ISBN 13: 9780393008968

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Co., 1978

Synopsis

The Meaning of Independence, first published in 1976, has become one of the standard short works on the first three presidents of the United States - George Washington, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson. When the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association and the Organization of American Historians asked 1,500 historians to name the ten best books about George Washington, this book was one of those selected.

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Review:

There's simply no better way of comprehending Washington and Adams than reading this book.... Morgan is a supremely artful historian. Masking his commanding authority (in this and in his other books) is a puckish ease and an utterly smooth prose style that managers to be at once conversational and incisive. - Atlantic ""Characterized by the author's customary subtlety and penetration.... [The Meaning of Independence] represents an attempt to open up this complicated subject through separate portraits of John Adams, George Washington, and Thomas Jefferson."" - Journal of American History ""With the wit, grace, and sense of irony we have come to expect from him, Morgan seeks to discover 'the meaning of independence' for the Revolutionary generation and indeed, for our own.... Morgan is not only a brilliant historian but a superb storyteller as well."" - Choice ""[Morgan] knows the eighteenth century better than most of us know our living room. His name is a guarantee of sound scholarship, and we can expect imaginative insight and meticulous and subtle presentation; we are not disappointed."" - History Review of Books

About the Author:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Co.
• Publication date: 1978
• ISBN 10: 0393008967
• ISBN 13: 9780393008968
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 96