Beyond the Revolution: A History of American Thought from Paine to Pragmatism (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780465004959)

From 1776, when Citizen Tom Paine declared, "The birthday of a new world is at hand," America was unique in world history. A nation suffused with the spirit of explorers, constantly replenished by immigrants, and informed by a continual influx of foreign ideas, it was the world's first truly cosmopolitan civilization.

In Beyond the Revolution, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian William H. Goetzmann tells the story of America's greatest thinkers and creators, from Paine and Jefferson to Melville and William James, showing how they built upon and battled one another's ideas in the critical years between 1776 and 1900. An unprecedented work of intellectual history by a master historian, this book will be essential reading for anyone interested in the origins of our national culture.

Author: William H. Goetzmann
ISBN-10: 0465004954
ISBN-13: 9780465004959
Publisher: Basic Books
Language: English
Published: 03/01/2009
Pages: 480
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.55lbs
Size: 9.90h x 6.50w x 1.60d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 12/01/2008 pg. 36
Library Journal 02/01/2009 pg. 73
New York Times Book Review 02/22/2009 pg. 10
New York Times Book Review 03/01/2009 pg. 18
Kirkus Reviews 12/15/2008 pg. 1291