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The Making of an American Thinking Class

Intellectuals and Intelligentsia in Puritan Massachusetts

By: Darren Staloff

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The Making of an American Thinking Class

Intellectuals and Intelligentsia in Puritan Massachusetts

By: Darren Staloff

This pathbreaking study offers a radical new interpretation of the political, religious, and intellectual history of Puritan Massachusetts. More than simply a theologically inspired Biblical commonwealth, the church state of the Bay Colony was a seventeenth-century one-party state, where congregations served as ideological cells.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0195149823

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9780195149821

Hamilton, Adams, Jefferson

The Politics of Enlightenment and the American Founding

By: Darren Staloff

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Hamilton, Adams, Jefferson

The Politics of Enlightenment and the American Founding

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An intellectual history of three Founding Fathers whose unique approaches to the Enlightenment helped shape America. American historian Darren Staloff delves into the political and intellectual lives of Alexander Hamilton, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson to reveal how they embodied the collision of Europe’s grand Enlightenment project with the birth of a young nation. These three very different men each governed their public lives by Enlightenment principles. And the struggle for American independence would forever change their relationships to the politics of Enlightenment. Repeated humiliation on America’s battlefields banished Hamilton’s youthful idealism, leaving him a disciple of Enlightened realpolitik and the nation’s leading exponent of modern statecraft. After ten years in Europe’s diplomatic trenches, Adams’s embrace of the politics of Enlightenment became increasingly skeptical in spirit, and his public posture became increasingly that of the gadfly of his country. And Jefferson’s frustrations as a Revolutionary governor in Virginia led him to go beyond his Enlightened worldview, and articulate a new and radical Romantic politics of principle. Staloff demonstrates how each of these approaches helped shape America’s unique political identity. Because of the influence of these towering figures, Americans demand a government that is both modern, constrained by checks and balances, and capable of appealing to our loftiest aspirations while adhering to decidedly pragmatic policies.

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Macmillan + ORM

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1429929863

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9781429929868

Hamilton, Adams, Jefferson

The Politics of Enlightenment and the American Founding

By: Darren Staloff

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The Politics of Enlightenment and the American Founding

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The author compares the intellectual understanding of the Enlightenment of Alexander Hamilton, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson, and shows how the personal experiences and regional cultural traditions of each man shaped his interpretation of that movement and how those ideals played into the birth of the new nation.

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Macmillan

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080905356X

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9780809053568

The Making of an American Thinking Class

Intellectuals and Intelligentsia in Puritan Massachusetts

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Great Minds of the Western Intellectual Tradition

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Great Minds of the Western Intellectual Tradition

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Presents lectures by Darren Staloff ... [et al.]. These lectures are based on the seminar course at Columbia University on Western intellectual history augmented by additional lectures by selected "guest" lecturers. Gives a guided tour through 3,000 years of Western thought.

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The Making of an American Thinking Class

The Making of an American Thinking Class

Hamilton, Adams, Jefferson

Hamilton, Adams, Jefferson

Hamilton, Adams, Jefferson

Hamilton, Adams, Jefferson

The Making of an American Thinking Class

The Making of an American Thinking Class

Great Minds of the Western Intellectual Tradition

Great Minds of the Western Intellectual Tradition

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