Empire of Reason: How Europe Imagined and America Realized the Enlightenment

Title: Empire of Reason: How Europe Imagined and America Realized the Enlightenment
Author: Henry Steele Commager
ISBN: 9781842120767
Publisher: Phoenix
Published: 2001
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Edition: Pbk. ed
Number of Pages: 352
Section: History | United States | Revolutionary Period (1775-1800)
Publisher Description: The foremost American historian of his generation delves into the nation's European origins, illuminating how the new country embodied the principles of the Enlightenment--ideals that Europe, trapped by tradition and privilege, could not itself realize. ..".crystalline clarity of...writing [causes] explosions in the reader's mind...history to be pondered and cherished."--The New York Times. "Learning and reason are at the service of a mind whose understanding of democracy gains brilliance and power from a passion for...freedom."--Arthur Schlesinger Jr.