A01=Edmund S. Morgan
Author_Edmund S. Morgan
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Product details
- ISBN 9780393306231
- Weight: 351g
- Dimensions: 135 x 196mm
- Publication Date: 07 Mar 1990
- Publisher: WW Norton & Co
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
Edmund S. Morgan (1916–2013) was the Sterling Professor Emeritus at Yale University and the recipient of the National Humanities Medal, the Pulitzer Prize, and the American Academy’s Gold Medal. The author of The Genuine Article; American Slavery, American Freedom; Benjamin Franklin; and American Heroes, among many others.
