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In this engaging history, James MacGregor Melts away brings to vibrant life the two-hundred-year conflagration of the Enlightenment, during which audacious questions and amazing ideas tore across European countries and the brand new World, changing thought, decreasing governments, and inspiring visionary political tests that would ultimately reach every area of the world. Unlike most historians, Melts away pays particular focus on America's intellectual revolution, beginning and closing his report on American soil. He discovers the origins of our home Enlightenment in men like Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson and their early on encounters with incendiary Western european ideas about liberty and equality, and he illustrates the role of thinkers like James Madison and Alexander Hamilton. After all, it was the American founders, together among Enlightenment thinkers, who actually transported through using their ideas. Today the same questions Enlightenment thinkers grappled with took on new urgency about the world: in the blossoming Arab Spring, in the former Soviet Union, China, and in america. What should a nation be? What should a citizenry expect from its government? Who should lead and determine? How can citizens effect change? What's contentment, and what can the state contribute to it? Burns's exploration of the ideals and arguments that made the bedrock in our nation shines a new light on these ever-important questions.
