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The Great Contradiction: The Tragic Side of the American Founding
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The Great Contradiction: The Tragic Side of the American Founding
Language: English
Published by Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2025
ISBN 10: 0593801415 ISBN 13: 9780593801413
hardcover. Condition: Fine copy in fine dust jacket. 2nd prt. 8vo, 226 pp.
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The Great Contradiction (Hardcover)
Language: English
Published by Random House USA Inc, New York, 2025
ISBN 10: 0593801415 ISBN 13: 9780593801413
Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. A major new history from our most trusted voice on the Revolutionary era, the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Founding Brothers and the National Book Award winner American Sphinx- an astounding look at how America's founders-Washington, Jefferson, Franklin, Madison, Adams-regarded the issue of slavery as they drafted the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. A daring and important work that ultimately reckons with the two great failures of America's founding- the failure to end slavery and the failure to avoid Indian removal.A major new history from our most trusted voice on the Revolutionary era, the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Founding Brothers and the National Book Award winner American Sphinx, and featured in THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, a film by Ken Burns, Sarah Botstein, and David Schmidt, on PBS.An astounding look at how America's founders-Washington, Jefferson, Franklin, Madison, Adams-regarded the issue of slavery as they drafted the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. A daring and important work that ultimately reckons with the two great failures of America's founding- the failure to end slavery and the failure to avoid Indian removal."Masterfully widen s our lens to tell a deeper, more complex, more accurate story of our founding." -Ken BurnsOn the eve of the American Revolution, half a million enslaved African Americans were embedded in the North American population. The slave trade was flourishing, even as the thirteen colonies armed themselves to defend against the idea of being governed without consent. This paradox gave birth to what one of our most admired historians, Joseph J. Ellis, calls the "great contradiction"- How could a government that had been justified and founded on the principles articulated in the Declaration of Independence institutionalize slavery? How could it permit a tidal wave of western migration by settlers who understood the phrase "pursuit of happiness" to mean the pursuit of Indian lands?With narrative grace and a flair for irony and paradox, Ellis addresses the questions that lie at America's twisted roots-questions that turned even the sharpest minds of the Revolutionary generation into mental contortionists. He discusses the first debates around slavery and the treatment of Native Americans, from the Constitutional Convention to the Treaty of New York, revealing the thinking and rationalizations behind Jay, Hamilton, and Madison's revisions of the Articles of Confederation, and highlights the key role of figures like Quaker abolitionist Anthony Benezet and Creek chief Alexander McGillivray.Ellis writes with candor and deftness, his clarion voice rising above presentist historians and partisans who are eager to make the founders into trophies in the ongoing culture wars. Instead, Ellis tells a story that is rooted in the coexistence of grandeur and failure, brilliance and blindness, grace and sin. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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The Great Contradiction: The Tragic Side of the American Founding (Hardback or Cased Book)
Language: English
Published by Knopf Publishing Group 10/28/2025, 2025
ISBN 10: 0593801415 ISBN 13: 9780593801413
Hardback or Cased Book. Condition: New. The Great Contradiction: The Tragic Side of the American Founding. Book.
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The Great Contradiction
Language: English
Published by Random House USA Inc, US, 2025
ISBN 10: 0593801415 ISBN 13: 9780593801413
Hardback. Condition: New.
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The Great Contradiction
Language: English
Published by Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2025
ISBN 10: 0593801415 ISBN 13: 9780593801413
HRD. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.
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The Great Contradiction
Language: English
Published by Random House USA Inc, US, 2025
ISBN 10: 0593801415 ISBN 13: 9780593801413
Seller: Rarewaves.com USA, London, LONDO, United Kingdom
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
Hardback. Condition: New.
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The Great Contradiction
Language: English
Published by Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2025
ISBN 10: 0593801415 ISBN 13: 9780593801413
Seller: PBShop.store UK, Fairford, GLOS, United Kingdom
Seller rating 4 out of 5 stars
HRD. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.
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Great Contradiction: The Tragic Side of the American Founding
Language: English
Published by Knopf Publishing Group, 2025
ISBN 10: 0593801415 ISBN 13: 9780593801413
Seller: Strand Book Store, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Seller rating 4 out of 5 stars
Hardcover. Condition: Good.
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The Great Contradiction The Tragic Side of the American Founding
Language: English
Published by Alfred A. Knopf,, New York:, 2025
ISBN 10: 0593801415 ISBN 13: 9780593801413
Seller: Town's End Books, ABAA, Deep River, CT, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing. First Printing Fine in 1/4 black paper and red paper covered boards with gilt text stamping on the spine. A small quarto of 9 by 6 inches. In a fine, unclipped dust jacket. 226 pages including an index, chapter note and text. Illustrated with maps.
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Great Contradiction: The Tragic Side of the American Founding
Language: English
Published by Knopf Publishing Group October 2025, 2025
ISBN 10: 0593801415 ISBN 13: 9780593801413
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The Great Contradiction: The Tragic Side of the American Founding
Seller: Roundabout Books, Greenfield, MA, U.S.A.
Association Member: SNEAB
Seller rating 4 out of 5 stars
hardcover. Condition: New. New from the publisher.
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hardcover. Condition: New. Special order direct from the distributor.
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Great Contradiction : The Tragic Side of the American Founding
Seller: GreatBookPricesUK, Woodford Green, United Kingdom
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
Condition: New.
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Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 240 pages. 9.25x6.12x0.59 inches. In Stock.
