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Author:

Thompson, C. Bradley author.

Title:

America's revolutionary mind : a moral history of the American Revolution and the Declaration that defined it / C. Bradley Thompson.

Edition:

First American edition.

Publisher:

Encounter Books,

Copyright Date:

2019

Description:

xiv, 447 pages ; 24 cm

Subject:

Political science--United States--History--18th century.
United States.--Declaration of Independence
United States--Moral and ethical aspects.--Revolution, 1775-1783--Moral and ethical aspects.
American Revolution (1775-1783)
Declaration of Independence (United States)

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

The Enlightenment and the Declaration of Independence -- Declaring the laws of nature -- Self-evident truths -- Equality -- Equality and slavery -- The nature of rights -- Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness -- The consent of the governed -- Consent and the just powers of government -- Revolution -- Rebels with a cause -- Has America lost its American mind?

Summary:

"The purpose of America's Revolutionary Mind is twofold: first, to elucidate the logic, principles, and significance of the Declaration of Independence as the embodiment of the American mind; and, second, to shed light on what John Adams called the real American Revolution--that is, the moral revolution that occurred in the minds of the people in the fifteen years before what Ralph Waldo Emerson, in his 'Concord Hymn' (1837), famously called the 'shot heard round the world'."--Introduction, p. 4.

ISBN:

164177066X
9781641770668

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1085200569

LCCN:

2019014130

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)