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Title: The Elusive Republic: Political Economy in Jeffersonian America by Drew R. McCoy ISBN: 0-8078-4616-3 Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Pr Pub. Date: September, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.25 (8 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Good and Easy read--Religio-Philosophial gloss on US history
Comment: Excellent survey of how the founders idealized the future of America as contraposed against the "old world" as well as how, even in the early stages of the Country, the founder's time was idealized as a kind of ever receeding eden to which the country aspires to return to. You can hear the echos of this today in family values rhetoric, the contining (if anachronistic) idealization of the family farm and "main street." McCoy sets up the American experience as a continuing striving to re-create that idealized world of the founders that never really existed. Central that idealized conception was the idea of "virtue" among all of the citizens that the founders saw as a pre-requisite of a lasting republic. That is a republic could only work if its citizens were "masters and slaves of none"--this is where the ideal of the single yoeman farmer of Jefferson comes in. Only with this economic self-sufficiency, the founders thought, could citizens act for the common good. This is why it is often said that the founders didn't like or anticpate poltical parties--they felt that in this ideal republic, the citizens would always abandon their self interest. McCoy also talks about how important it was to inculcate this vision of the way that the repulbic "should be" throough educational exhortation and poltical economics (open land in the west)so that future generations would both understand their vision and be able to take care of it.
Rating: 5
Summary: This is a book to hang on to.
Comment: In The Elusive Republic, Drew R. McCoy presents a compeling work on the development of America's political economy. After walking away from this book I felt that I had a good grasp on an area of Jeffersonian republicanism that I had not been exposed to. This is a book to hang on to.
Rating: 4
Summary: Bringing Jefferson to life
Comment: This was a successful chronicle of Jefferson's policy and his role in building a new republic. A wonderful read that brings history to life!
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Title: American Politics in the Early Republic: The New Nation in Crisis by James Roger Sharp ISBN: 0300065191 Publisher: Yale Univ Pr Pub. Date: August, 1995 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: Liberty and Power: The Politics of Jacksonian America by Harry L. Watson, Eric Foner ISBN: 0374521964 Publisher: Noonday Press Pub. Date: February, 1990 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Original Meanings : Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution by Jack N. Rakove ISBN: 0679781218 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 27 May, 1997 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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Title: The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution by Bernard Bailyn ISBN: 0674443020 Publisher: Belknap Pr Pub. Date: March, 1992 List Price(USD): $19.50 |
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Title: The Market Revolution: Jacksonian America 1815-1846 by Charles Sellers ISBN: 0195089200 Publisher: Oxford Press Pub. Date: May, 1994 List Price(USD): $21.50 |
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