Morgan: ∗inventing∗ The People – The Rise Of Popul Ar Sovereignty In England & America - Hardcover

Morgan, Es

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0393025055 ISBN 13: 9780393025057

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Co., 1988

Synopsis

"The best explanation that I have seen for our distinctive combination of faith, hope and naiveté concerning the governmental process."? Michael Kamman, Washington Post 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.

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Review

Edmund S. Morgan . . . [is] a man with a rare gift for telling the story of the past simply and elegantly without sacrificing its abundant complexity. . . . The story he tells is of enormous interest and importance.--Pauline Meier

[A] provocative new study. . . . In a series of brilliant chapters, [Morgan] probes the myths that sustained eighteenth-century American notions of liberty.--Keith Thomas

About the Author

Edmund S. Morgan is 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, Morgan lives with his wife in New Haven.

Edition details

• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Co.
• Publication date: 1988
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0393025055
• ISBN 13: 9780393025057
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 318