Article: A rising and not a setting sun.(Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815)(Book review)

Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815, by Gordon S. Wood (Oxford, 778 pp., $35)

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THE history of America's founding has been well taught in elite American universities for 50 years. That is thanks to a great cohort of scholars--Douglass Adair, Edmund Morgan, Bernard Bailyn, Forrest McDonald--of whom Gordon Wood is one of the last. Despite their differences in emphasis and point of view, these historians agreed in throwing off the Charles Beard paradigm of history: Money made them do it. They noticed that leaders and ordinary Americans in the founding generation had ideas, and they proposed to take those ideas ...

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