Revolutions revisited : two faces of the politics of enlightenment
1994, First Edition. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press. Fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #416874
ISBN: 0807821365
Physical description; xv, 136 pages ; 24 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; pt. 1. Looking forward: Dr. Janus -- America's place in the Enlightenment -- A dialogue of fathers and sons -- pt. 2. Re-visioning "Our revolution": What manner of speech? -- Burke's muffled oars -- Lincoln's revolution -- Tocqueville's political sermon -- Revival through recollection. Subjects; Burke, Edmund 1729-1797. Franklin, Benjamin 1706-1790. Lincoln, Abraham 1809-1865. Tocqueville, Alexis de 1805-1859. Political science United States History. Enlightenment United States. Political science, Political ideologies. Philosophy. History.
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