Inventing the People - by Edmund S Morgan (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>The best explanation that I have seen for our distinctive combination of faith, hope and naiveté concerning the governmental process. --Michael Kamman, <em>Washington Post</em><p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>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.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>[A] provocative new study. . . . In a series of brilliant chapters, [Morgan] probes the myths that sustained eighteenth-century American notions of liberty.--Keith Thomas "New York Review of Books"<br><br>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 "New York Times Book Review"<br>
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