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| #1243249 in Books | Princeton University Press | 1996-08-05 | 1996-08-25 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.00 x1.04 x6.00l,1.29 | File type: PDF | 416 pages | ||14 of 38 people found the following review helpful.| MIA|By Along Red River of the North|Shain's thesis advocating Protestant communitarianism as the sole basis for American independence and constitutionalism builds a strawman/bogeyman out of modern liberal individualism, and claims that solipsistic slackers did not exist in colonial and revolutionary America, so let's discount liberalism as part of our founding DNA.
From Scientific American|A fascinating work that does much to expose the hollowness of early American individualism.||"Barry Shain is perhaps not so much an anti-liberal as a general trouble-maker....He studies the year 176
Sharpening the debate over the values that formed America's founding political philosophy, Barry Alan Shain challenges us to reconsider what early Americans meant when they used such basic political concepts as the public good, liberty, and slavery. We have too readily assumed, he argues, that eighteenth-century Americans understood these and other terms in an individualistic manner. However, by exploring how these core elements of their political thought were employe...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.The Myth of American Individualism | Barry Alan Shain. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.
