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Making America, A History of the United States
Making America, Third Edition
Carol Berkin, Baruch College, City University of New York
Christopher L. Miller, The University of Texas, Pan American
Robert W. Cherny, San Francisco State University
James L. Gormly, Washington and Jefferson College
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Chapter 7: Competing Visions of the Virtuous Republic, 1770-1796
Gordon Wood. The Creation of the American
Republic, 1776-1787 (1998).
Wood traces the progress of the revolutionary
generation’s social and political thought from Independence to the ratification
of the Constitution.
Joyce Appleby. Recollections of the Early Republic: Selected Autobigraphies
(1997).
This is a collection of memoirs by ordinary
people, including former slaves and pioneer women, who came of age in the new
republic.
Joseph Ellis. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary
Generation (2000).
Ellis recreates the intertwined lives of the
major political figures of the revolution and early republic, focusing on six
critical events including the Hamilton-Burr duel and President Washington’s
Farewell Address.
J.T. Main. The Anti-Federalists: Critics
of the Constitution, 1781-1788 (1974).
A social and intellectual history of the men
who opposed the Constitution.
Jack Rakove. Original Meanings: Politics
and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution (1997).
A Pulitzer Prize winning examination of the
original intentions of the men who framed the Constitution, focusing on the
problems, such as representation, executive power, and judicial power that these
men had to resolve.
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