American Character: A History of the Epic Struggle Between Individual Liberty and the Common Good

by Colin Woodard

Book Overview

The author of American Nations examines the history of and solutions to the key American question: how best to reconcile individual liberty with the maintenance of a free society The struggle between individual rights and the good of the community as a whole has been the basis of nearly every major disagreement in our history, from the debates at the Constitutional Convention and in the run up to the Civil War to the fights surrounding the agendas...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0525427899
• ISBN13: 9780525427896
• Release Date: March 2016
• Publisher: Viking
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.7" x 9.4"