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The Nation Takes Shape (Paperback)
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The Nation Takes Shape (Paperback)
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Marcus Cunliffe, whom the Washington Post and Times Herald calls "a
master historian capable of seeing his subject whole," has written
a cogent and revealing study of America's first half-century under
the federal Constitution. Bounded by the first Washington
Administration and the last Jackson Administration, this is the
period in which democracy grew and shaped the nation. It witnessed
the launching of the federal government; the expansion of the
frontier; the establishment of a party system; the enunciation of a
foreign policy; the manufacture of the symbols of nationalism; and
the forging of the arguments of sectionalism. Most important, Mr.
Cunliffe writes, "the American character seems to have been formed
in essence within a generation of George Washington's accession to
the Presidency."
"An urbane, stimulating, and admirably proportioned analysis. . .
."--Alexander DeConde, "Wisconsin Magazine of History"
"What [Mr. Cunliffe] has done is to weave together and show the
fertile interplay of the American dream and the American
reality--and show how much the dream modified the reality. . . . an
acute and elegant performance."--"Times Literary Supplement "
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