The Long Revolution: Creating a United States After 1776 by Perl-Rosenthal, Nathan
The Long Revolution: Creating a United States After 1776 by Perl-Rosenthal, Nathan

The Long Revolution: Creating a United States After 1776

For America 250, a provocative argument that a "Long Revolution" formed the violently beating heart of American...
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Author: Nathan Perl-Rosenthal
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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The Long Revolution: Creating a United States After 1776 by Perl-Rosenthal, Nathan

The Long Revolution: Creating a United States After 1776

$36.00
The Long Revolution: Creating a United States After 1776 by Perl-Rosenthal, Nathan

The Long Revolution: Creating a United States After 1776

$36.00
Author: Nathan Perl-Rosenthal
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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For America 250, a provocative argument that a "Long Revolution" formed the violently beating heart of American politics for decades after 1776.

"Nathan Perl-Rosenthal's delightful The Long Revolution shows how much the story of America remains unsettled--and ours to make anew." --Garrett M. Graff, bestselling author of The Only Plane in the Sky

In the century after Independence, many Americans believed that their Revolution was still in progress. Far from a unifying national myth, the Revolution was for generations of Americans a source of radically conflicting political ideas. Nowhere was this clearer than on the Fourth of July, when Americans gathered for speeches that, as one orator put it in 1834, aimed to "examine the present, and to look forward to the future."

In The Long Revolution, historian Nathan Perl-Rosenthal mines thousands of Independence Day orations to offer a stirring and revelatory new history of this long American Revolution. In the words of local notables and national celebrities, men and women, white and Black, he identifies the contrasting visions, intense anxieties, and radical power evoked by the Revolution deep into the nineteenth century. This is a history of the American founding for today's fragmented and anxious political moment, helping us find a usable past to guide us toward our own uncertain future.

Author: Nathan Perl-Rosenthal
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 06/02/2026
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.60w x 1.20d
ISBN: 9781541606630


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 03/15/2026
Library Journal 05/01/2026 pg. 124
Booklist 06/01/2026

About the Author
Nathan Perl-Rosenthal is a professor of history, French and Italian, and law at the University of Southern California. His writing has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, The Nation, and the Los Angeles Times. The award-winning author of The Age of Revolutions and Citizen Sailors, he lives in Los Angeles and Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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