Common Sense: A Political HistoryHarvard University Press, 2 sep 2011 - 368 pagina's Common sense has always been a cornerstone of American politics. In 1776, Tom Paine’s vital pamphlet with that title sparked the American Revolution. And today, common sense—the wisdom of ordinary people, knowledge so self-evident that it is beyond debate—remains a powerful political ideal, utilized alike by George W. Bush’s aw-shucks articulations and Barack Obama’s down-to-earth reasonableness. But far from self-evident is where our faith in common sense comes from and how its populist logic has shaped modern democracy. Common Sense: A Political History is the first book to explore this essential political phenomenon. |
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London 1688 1739 | 17 |
Aberdeen 1758 1770 | 56 |
Amsterdam 1760 1775 | 90 |
Philadelphia 1776 | 136 |
Paris 1790 1792 | 181 |