{"product_id":"the-nation-takes-shape-marcus-cunliffe-9780226126678","title":"The Nation Takes Shape: 1789-1837","description":"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.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"An urbane, stimulating, and admirably proportioned analysis. . . .\"-Alexander DeConde, \u003ci\u003eWisconsin Magazine of History\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"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.\"-\u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Marcus Cunliffe\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0226126676\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226126678\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/15\/1960\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 230\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.92h x 5.27w x 0.53d","brand":"Marcus Cunliffe","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45481706815743,"sku":"9780226126678","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_89a76fd1-a5c0-48a2-a901-1183dec4af9e.jpg?v=1715987433","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-nation-takes-shape-marcus-cunliffe-9780226126678","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}