US Intellectual History
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The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution
by:
Bernard Bailyn
4.05 avg rating — 4,353 ratings 3. 
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The Metaphysical Club : A Story of Ideas in America
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Louis Menand
4.07 avg rating — 5,292 ratings 
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U.S. Constitution (Saddlewire) (Books of American Wisdom)
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Founding Fathers
4.52 avg rating — 27,061 ratings 
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Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America
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Garry Wills
4.16 avg rating — 8,535 ratings 
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The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln
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Sean Wilentz
3.97 avg rating — 1,899 ratings 12. 
Miracle at Philadelphia: The Story of the Constitutional Convention, May to September 1787 4.06 avg rating — 1,983 ratings
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An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States
by:
Charles A. Beard
3.68 avg rating — 470 ratings 
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Beneath the American Renaissance: The Subversive Imagination in the Age of Emerson and Melville 4.27 avg rating — 107 ratings
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No Place of Grace: Antimodernism and the Transformation of American Culture, 1880–1920 4.06 avg rating — 205 ratings
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Liberalism and Republicanism in the Historical Imagination
by:
Joyce Appleby
3.65 avg rating — 20 ratings 
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American Gospel: God, the Founding Fathers, and the Making of a Nation
by:
Jon Meacham
3.86 avg rating — 3,137 ratings 
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Uncertain Victory: Social Democracy and Progressivism in European and American Thought, 1870-1920 3.64 avg rating — 47 ratings
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That Noble Dream: The "Objectivity Question" and the American Historical Profession
by:
Peter Novick
3.60 avg rating — 603 ratings 35. 
The Liberal Mind in a Conservative Age: American Intellectuals in the 1940s and 1950s
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Richard H. Pells
3.81 avg rating — 32 ratings 36. 
W.E.B. Du Bois: The Fight for Equality and the American Century, 1919-1963 4.13 avg rating — 559 ratings
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The Last Intellectuals: American Culture in the Age of Academe
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Russell Jacoby
3.96 avg rating — 157 ratings 
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The American Evasion of Philosophy: A Genealogy of Pragmatism
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Cornel West
4.11 avg rating — 161 ratings 
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Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
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Ibram X. Kendi
4.53 avg rating — 37,882 ratings 
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The Black Image in the White Mind: The Debate on Afro-American Character and Destiny, 1817-1914 4.04 avg rating — 48 ratings
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The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual: A Historical Analysis of the Failure of Black Leadership (New York Review Books Classics)
by:
Harold Cruse
4.16 avg rating — 228 ratings 49. 
Conservative Intellectual Movement in America, Since 1945
by:
George H. Nash
4.21 avg rating — 326 ratings 49. 
The New York Intellectuals: The Rise and Decline of the Anti-Stalinist Left From the 1930s to the 1980s
by:
Alan M. Wald
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 47 ratings 51. 
Revolutionary Characters: What Made the Founders Different
by:
Gordon S. Wood
3.97 avg rating — 4,063 ratings 52. 
Main Currents in American Thought, Vol. 1: The Colonial Mind, 1620-1800 3.93 avg rating — 42 ratings
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Main Currents in American Thought, Vol. 2: The Romantic Revolution in America, 1800-1860 3.87 avg rating — 31 ratings
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The Cultural Front: The Laboring of American Culture in the Twentieth Century (Haymarket Series)
by:
Michael Denning
3.92 avg rating — 224 ratings 
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The Antislavery Debate: Capitalism and Abolitionism as a Problem in Historical Interpretation
by:
Thomas Bender
3.46 avg rating — 37 ratings 60. 
Patriotic Gore: Studies in the Literature of the American Civil War
by:
Edmund Wilson
4.09 avg rating — 282 ratings 61. 
The Inner Civil War: Northern Intellectuals and the Crisis of the Union 3.65 avg rating — 52 ratings
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America's God: From Jonathan Edwards to Abraham Lincoln
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Mark A. Noll
4.31 avg rating — 357 ratings 67. 
The Promise of Pragmatism: Modernism and the Crisis of Knowledge and Authority 4.38 avg rating — 16 ratings
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The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made
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Walter Isaacson
4.10 avg rating — 4,264 ratings 
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New York Intellect: A History of Intellectual Life in New York City from 1750 to the Beginnings of Our Own Time
by:
Thomas Bender
4.23 avg rating — 13 ratings 70. 
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A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America: Volume I
by:
John Adams
4.20 avg rating — 25 ratings 73. 
Puritans and Pragmatists: Eight Eminent American Thinkers
by:
Paul K. Conkin
4.22 avg rating — 9 ratings 
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Democracy / Esther / Mont Saint Michel and Chartres / The Education of Henry Adams
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Henry Adams
4.23 avg rating — 133 ratings 
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Uplifting the Race: Black Leadership, Politics, and Culture in the Twentieth Century
by:
Kevin K. Gaines
3.82 avg rating — 33 ratings 
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The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double-Consciousness
by:
Paul Gilroy
4.03 avg rating — 1,339 ratings 
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Manliness & Civilization: A Cultural History of Gender and Race in the United States, 1880-1917
by:
Gail Bederman
4.07 avg rating — 794 ratings 
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Can Donald Trump Make America Great Again?: The Second Term
by:
Robert George
liked it 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings 88. 
The Founders and the Classics: Greece, Rome, and the American Enlightenment
by:
Carl J. Richard
4.02 avg rating — 86 ratings 88. 
The American Enlightenment (Library of the History of Ideas, 11) (Volume 11)
by:
Frank Shuffelton
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings 88. 
Hoodwinked: How Intellectual Hucksters Have Hijacked American Culture
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Jack Cashill
3.72 avg rating — 74 ratings 91. 
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The Mind of the Master Class: History and Faith in the Southern Slaveholders' Worldview 4.20 avg rating — 56 ratings
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The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
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Jonathan Haidt
4.20 avg rating — 63,326 ratings 
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A Consuming Fire: The Fall of the Confederacy in the Mind of the White Christian South 3.90 avg rating — 84 ratings
