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American Character

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

ISBN-13: 9780525427896

Contributor(s): Colin Woodard

Subject: History of the Americas

Publisher Imprint: Viking Press USA

Publication Date: 17-03-2016

Format: Hardback

Availability: Out of stock

£25.99

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About the book

The struggle between individualism and the good of the community as a whole has been the basis of every major disagreement in America's history, from the debates at the Constitutional Convention to the civil rights movement to the Tea Party. In American Character, Colin Woodard traces these two key strands in American politics through the four centuries of the nation's existence, from the first colonies through the Gilded Age and Great Depression to the present day, and how different regions of the country have successfully or disastrously accommodated them.