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The Society for Useful Knowledge: How Benjamin Franklin and Friends Brought the Enlightenment to America

By Jonathan Lyons

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Hardcover:

9781608195534 | Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA, June 11, 2013, cover price $27.00

Paperback:

9781608195725 | Reprint edition (Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA, June 10, 2014), cover price $18.00

Resistance to Tyrants, Obedience to God: Reason, Religion, and Republicanism at the American Founding

By Dustin Gish (editor) and Daniel Klinghard (editor)

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Hardcover:

9780739182192 | Lexington Books, August 28, 2013, cover price $85.00

The Limits of Optimism: Thomas Jefferson's Dualistic Enlightenment

Product Description: The Limits of Optimism works to dispel persistent notions about Jeffersonâs allegedly paradoxical and sphinx-like quality. Maurizio Valsania shows that Jeffersonâs multifaceted character and personality are to a large extent the logical outcome of an anti-metaphysical, enlightened, and humility-oriented approach to reality...read more

By Maurizio Valsania

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9780813931449 | Univ of Virginia Pr, August 5, 2011, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: The Limits of Optimism works to dispel persistent notions about Jeffersonâs allegedly paradoxical and sphinx-like quality.

Paperback:

9780813934457 | Univ of Virginia Pr, April 29, 2013, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: The Limits of Optimism works to dispel persistent notions about Jeffersonâs allegedly paradoxical and sphinx-like quality.

When Benjamin Franklin Met the Reverend Whitefield: Enlightenment, Revival, and the Power of the Printed Word

Product Description: In the 1740s, two quite different developments revolutionized Anglo-American life and thoughtâthe Enlightenment and the Great Awakening. This book takes an encounter between the paragons of each movementâthe printer and entrepreneur Benjamin Franklin and the British-born revivalist George Whitefieldâas an opportunity to explore the meaning of the beginnings of modern science and rationality on one hand and evangelical religious enthusiasm on the other...read more

By Peter Charles Hoffer

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9781421403113 | Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, October 11, 2011, cover price $55.00 | About this edition: In the 1740s, two quite different developments revolutionized Anglo-American life and thoughtâthe Enlightenment and the Great Awakening.

Paperback:

9781421403120 | Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, October 7, 2011, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: In the 1740s, two quite different developments revolutionized Anglo-American life and thoughtâthe Enlightenment and the Great Awakening.

Playing the Blues: Blues Rhythm Guitar

Product Description: This in-depth blues rhythm guitar text is core curriculum of the University of Southern California's Studio Guitar Department, which is part of the prestigious Flora L. Thornton School of Music, located in Los Angeles, California...read more

By Nick Stoubis and Steve Trovato

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Hardcover:

9780195020182, titled "The Enlightenment in America" | Oxford Univ Pr, September 1, 1976, cover price $24.95 | also contains The Enlightenment in America

Paperback:

9780786682348 | Spi pap/co edition (Mel Bay Pubns, September 1, 2010), cover price $14.99 | About this edition: This in-depth blues rhythm guitar text is core curriculum of the University of Southern California's Studio Guitar Department, which is part of the prestigious Flora L.

The Irony of Manifest Destiny: The Tragedy of America's Foreign Policy

By William Pfaff

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Hardcover:

9780802716996 | 1 edition (Walker & Co, May 25, 2010), cover price $25.00

Roots of American Character Identity: From the Height of Colonialism to the Beginnings of Federalism

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By Frederick William Dame

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9780773447769 | Edwin Mellen Pr, July 15, 2009, cover price $159.95 | About this edition: Brand New.

Roots of American Character Identity: From the Age of Exploration to the American Enlightenment

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By Frederick William Dame

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9780773447745 | Edwin Mellen Pr, July 15, 2009, cover price $119.95 | About this edition: Brand New.

Revolutions Revisited: Two Faces of the Politics of Enlightenment

Examines the practical matters of how enlightenment was brought about, detailing first how politicians sought to raise the public's aspirations, and then discussing the role of a national revolutionary heritage

By Ralph Lerner

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9780807821367 | Univ of North Carolina Pr, March 1, 1994, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: Examines the practical matters of how enlightenment was brought about, detailing first how politicians sought to raise the public's aspirations, and then discussing the role of a national revolutionary heritage

Paperback:

9780807857427 | Univ of North Carolina Pr, July 1, 2009, cover price $35.00

Hamilton, Adams, Jefferson: The Politics of Enlightenment And the American Founding

Product Description: Alexander Hamilton, the worldly New Yorker; John Adams, the curmudgeonly Yankee; Thomas Jefferson, the visionary Virginia squireâeach steered their public lives under the guideposts and constraints of Enlightenment principles, and for each their relationship to the politics of Enlightenment was transformed by the struggle for American independence...read more

By Darren Staloff

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9780809077847 | Hill & Wang Pub, July 1, 2005, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: Focuses on the contributions of Alexander Hamilton, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson to the formation of American democracy, explaining how their devotion to Enlightenment principles was transformed by the battle for independence.

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9780809053568 | Hill & Wang Pub, February 6, 2007, cover price $17.00 | About this edition: Alexander Hamilton, the worldly New Yorker; John Adams, the curmudgeonly Yankee; Thomas Jefferson, the visionary Virginia squireâeach steered their public lives under the guideposts and constraints of Enlightenment principles, and for each their relationship to the politics of Enlightenment was transformed by the struggle for American independence.

Atlantic Cousins: Benjamin Franklin and His Visionary Friends

Product Description: Ben Franklin was at the heart of the Enlightenment. He drew to him some of the greatest minds of that time, people who remain among the most intriguing in history â Americans, Englishmen, and Frenchmen whose ideas continue to shape how we live...read more

By Fruchtman

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9781560256687 | Thunder''s Mouth Pr, April 30, 2005, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: The author serves up a colorful portrait of Benjamin Franklin and his circle of friends, including Thomas Paine, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, James Madison, and Camille Desmoulins, among others.

Paperback:

9781560259626 | Basic Books, January 8, 2007, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Ben Franklin was at the heart of the Enlightenment.

A Most Amazing Scene of Wonders: Electricity And Enlightenment in Early America

Product Description: Benjamin Franklin's invention of the lightning rod is the founding fable of American science, but Franklin was only one of many early Americans fascinated by electricity. As a dramatically new physical experience, electricity amazed those who dared to tame the lightning and set it coursing through their own bodies...read more

By James Delbourgo

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9780674022997 | Harvard Univ Pr, October 15, 2006, cover price $31.50 | About this edition: Benjamin Franklin's invention of the lightning rod is the founding fable of American science, but Franklin was only one of many early Americans fascinated by electricity.

The Enlightenment in America

By Henry F. May

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Hardcover:

9781597400862 | Acls History E-Book Project, February 28, 2006, cover price $48.00

9780195020182 | Oxford Univ Pr, September 1, 1976, cover price $24.95 | also contains Playing the Blues: Blues Rhythm Guitar

Paperback:

9780195023671 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, February 9, 1978, cover price $59.95

The Roads to Modernity: The British, French, and American Enlightenments

Contrasting the Enlightenments in the three nations of France, England, and America, a distinguished intellectual historian demonstrates the primacy of the British Enlightenment, arguing that the moral and social philosophy it created still resonates strongly today. Reprint.

By Gertrude Himmelfarb

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9781400042364 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, August 1, 2004, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Contrasting the Enlightenments in the three nations of France, England, and America, a distinguished intellectual historian demonstrates the primacy of the British Enlightenment, arguing that the moral and social philosophy it created still resonates strongly today.

Paperback:

9781400077229 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, August 9, 2005), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Contrasting the Enlightenments in the three nations of France, England, and America, a distinguished intellectual historian demonstrates the primacy of the British Enlightenment, arguing that the moral and social philosophy it created still resonates strongly today.

Hearing Things: Religion, Illusion, and the American Enlightenment

By Leigh Eric Schmidt

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Hardcover:

9780674003033 | Harvard Univ Pr, September 15, 2000, cover price $57.50

Paperback:

9780674009981 | Harvard Univ Pr, November 30, 2002, cover price $30.00

America's Founding Secret: What the Scottish Enlightenment Taught Our Founding Fathers

Product Description: In the history of America's founding, the names of Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, John Adams, and other founding fathers loom large. But few Americans today would recognize the role played by such men as Francis Hutcheson, Adam Smith, Thomas Reid, Dugald Stewart, David Hume, and other philosophers of the Scottish Enlightenment...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Robert W. Galvin

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9780742522800 | Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc, September 1, 2002, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: In the history of America's founding, the names of Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, John Adams, and other founding fathers loom large.

Young Charles Sumner: And the Legacy of the American Enlightenment, 1811-1851

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By Anne-Marie Taylor

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9781558493001 | Univ of Massachusetts Pr, December 1, 2001, cover price $45.00

On Hallowed Ground: Abraham Lincoln and the Foundations of American History

Contests the validity of Marxist and poststructuralist theory in a review of the life and legacy of Abraham Lincoln. (view table of contents)

By John Patrick Diggins

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9780300082371 | Yale Univ Pr, August 11, 2000, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Contests the validity of Marxist and poststructuralist theory in a review of the life and legacy of Abraham Lincoln.

Sentimental Democracy: The Evolution of AmericaÂªs Romantic Self-Image

Using letters, journals, and other primary sources to plum the roots of American self-confidence and optimism, the author reveals how American commitment to Enlightenment principles led to such ideas as Manifest Destiny and a global society. (view table of contents)

By Andrew Burstein

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9780809085354, titled "Sentimental Democracy: The Evolution of America's Romantic Self-Image" | 1 edition (Hill & Wang Pub, April 1, 1999), cover price $28.00 | About this edition: Reveals how American commitment to Enlightenment principles led to such ideas as Manifest Destiny and a global society

9780788197734, titled "Sentimental Democracy: The Evolution of America's Romantic Self-image" | Diane Pub Co, March 1, 1999, cover price $28.00

The Constitution of Public Philosophy: Toward a Synthesis of Freedom and Responsibility in Postmodern America

Product Description: America, and the postmodern West in particular, are experiencing a moral and intellectual crisis, according to E. Robert Statham, Jr. In The Constitution of Public Philosophy, Statham argues that Walter Lippman was correct in locating this crisis in the impoverished nature of public philosophy, and he attempts to constitute a role for reason in contemporary America...read more

By E. Robert Statham

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9780761811107 | Univ Pr of Amer, June 1, 1998, cover price $77.00 | About this edition: America, and the postmodern West in particular, are experiencing a moral and intellectual crisis, according to E.

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9780761811114 | Univ Pr of Amer, June 1, 1998, cover price $55.99 | About this edition: America, and the postmodern West in particular, are experiencing a moral and intellectual crisis, according to E.

Jonathan Edwards and the Limits of Enlightenment Philosophy

Product Description: Jonathan Edwards has most often been considered in the context of the Puritanism of New England. In many ways, however, he was closer to the thinkers of the European Enlightenment. In this book. Leon Chai explores that connection, analyzing Edwards' thought in light of a number of the issues that preoccupied such Enlightenment figures as Locke, Descartes, Malebranche, and Leibniz...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Leon Chai

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9780195120097 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, April 23, 1998, cover price $140.00 | About this edition: Jonathan Edwards has most often been considered in the context of the Puritanism of New England.

The American Enlightenment

Product Description: Twenty-five essays, culled from the Journal of the History of Ideas, cover the unique participation of America in the international Enlightenment. The book is divided into two sections: Discourses of Religion, Science and the Nature of Man (including articles on Jonathan Edwards' early philosophical notes, Joel Barlow, Cotton Mather and Benjamin Rush) and Colonization, (Thomas Jefferson on Liberty, Dutch and American Federalism, and the `Ideologica Americana'...read more

By Frank Shuffleton (editor)

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9781878822246 | Univ of Rochester Pr, June 1, 1993, cover price $75.00 | About this edition: Twenty-five essays, culled from the Journal of the History of Ideas, cover the unique participation of America in the international Enlightenment.

Scotland and America in the Age of Enlightenment

Product Description: In the standard accounts of the American Enlightenment, Scottish influences on American culture are often recognized but usually limited to the effects of Scottish Common Sense Philosophy from the 1790s onwards. At the same time, many writers on the Scottish Enlightenment give little attention to America's influence on Scottish thought, and scholarship on both Enlightenments generally neglects religion, music, architecture, and other important areas of culture...read more

By Richard B. Sher and Jeffrey R. Smitten

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9780691055534 | Princeton Univ Pr, August 1, 1990, cover price $55.00 | About this edition: In the standard accounts of the American Enlightenment, Scottish influences on American culture are often recognized but usually limited to the effects of Scottish Common Sense Philosophy from the 1790s onwards.

The Enlightenment in America

Product Description: Although the European Enlightenment and its historical development and intellectual impact has been given extensive coverage, the author of this work was one of the first to explore its uniquely American expression in this volume, first published in 1975 by G.K. Hall.

By Ernest Cassara

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Paperback:

9780819167699 | Univ Pr of Amer, April 1, 1988, cover price $43.99 | About this edition: Although the European Enlightenment and its historical development and intellectual impact has been given extensive coverage, the author of this work was one of the first to explore its uniquely American expression in this volume, first published in 1975 by G.

Jefferson, Nationalism and the Enlightenment

Product Description: A collection of essays and lectures from Henry Steele Commager, one of America’s eminent historians. The focus is on the age of enlightenment, with particular attention to Thomas Jefferson, and how enlightenment philosophy shaped the birth of the United States.

By Henry Steele Commager

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9780807611630 | Reprint edition (George Braziller, October 1, 1986), cover price $8.95 | About this edition: A collection of essays and lectures from Henry Steele Commager, one of America’s eminent historians.

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