Beyond the Revolution: A History of American Thought from Paine to Pragmatism

by William H. Goetzmann

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0465004954
• ISBN13: 9780465004959
• Release Date: February 2009
• Publisher: Basic Books
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.5" x 9.9"