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Barcode30293102363202
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LocationClark County
Call No973.3 Perl
TitleThe long revolution : creating a United States after 1776 / Nathan Perl-Rosenthal.
AuthorPerl-Rosenthal, Nathan, 1982- author.
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International Standard Book Number 9781541606630 hardback
International Standard Book Number 1541606639 hardback
Personal Name Perl-Rosenthal, Nathan, 1982- author.
Title Statement The long revolution : creating a United States after 1776 / Nathan Perl-Rosenthal.
Edition Statement First edition
Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice New York : Basic Books, an imprint of Hachette Book Group, 2026.
Physical Description 258 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm.
Bibliography, Etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-248) and index.
Formatted Contents Note Introduction: forget 1776 -- Place and time -- Doubts -- Enemies within -- Slavery -- Revolution's end -- Aftershocks -- Epilogue -- A visual analysis of Fourth of July orations, 1777-1876 -- Appendix: a selection of orations.
Summary, Etc. For America's 250th birthday, a provocative argument that a "Long Revolution" formed the violently beating heart of American politics for decades after 1776. In the century after Independence, many Americans believed that their Revolution was still in progress. Far from a unifying national myth, the Revolution was for generations of Americans a source of radically conflicting political ideas. Nowhere was this clearer than on the Fourth of July, when Americans gathered for speeches that, as one orator put it in 1834, aimed to "examine the present, and to look forward to the future." In The Long Revolution, historian Nathan Perl-Rosenthal mines thousands of Independence Day orations to offer a stirring and revelatory new history of this long American Revolution. In the words of local notables and national celebrities, men and women, white and Black, he identifies the contrasting visions, intense anxieties, and radical power evoked by the Revolution deep into the nineteenth century. This is a history of the American founding for today's fragmented and anxious political moment, helping us find a usable past to guide us toward our own uncertain future.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Fourth of July orations.
Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term United States History Influence. Revolution, 1775-1783

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