Democracy and the American Revolution: We Hold These Truths: 1 (We Hold These Truths: America at 250) - Softcover

Levin, Yuval

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0844750611 ISBN 13: 9780844750613

Publisher: AEI Press, 2024

Synopsis

The year 2026 marks the 250th anniversary of American independence, yet the founding is controversial now in ways it has not been in decades. The American Enterprise Institute offers a major intellectual and educational project to reintroduce Americans to the unique value of their national inheritance.

In the inaugural volume of an eight-book series, renowned historians and political scientists explore what the contested idea of democracy meant to those who participated in the American Revolution. For some, democracy represented a particular way to order government, while others understood democracy to be a transformative principle that would serve as the philosophical bedrock of not just the new republic's political institutions but its social and cultural ones as well.

Examining the democratic culture that was born out of the American Revolution can help us understand the framework within which we continue to debate the structure and purpose of the system of government that binds us together today.

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About the Authors

Danielle Allen is a professor of public policy, politics, and ethics at Harvard University; director of the Allen Lab for Democracy Renovation at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government; and author of Our Declaration: A Reading of the Declaration of Independence in Defense of Equality (2014).

Peter Berkowitz is the Tad and Dianne Taube Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. He has served as director of the State Department's Policy Planning Staff, executive secretary of the department's Commission on Unalienable Rights, and senior adviser to the secretary of state.

Bryan Garsten is a professor of political science and humanities at Yale University and the author of Saving Persuasion: A Defense of Rhetoric and Judgment (2009).

Greg Weiner is the president of Assumption University and author of Old Whigs: Burke, Lincoln and the Politics of Prudence (2019).

Gordon S. Wood is professor emeritus of history at Brown University.

Edition details

• Publisher: AEI Press
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0844750611
• ISBN 13: 9780844750613
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 144
• Editor: White Adam J, Yoo John