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Encore Booknotes: Joyce Appleby, "Inheriting the Revolution: The First Generation of Americans"

Joyce Appleby

About the Program

Historian Joyce Appleby discusses the first generation to come of age after the American Revolution. Her book, "Inheriting the Revolution:The First Generation of Americans," examines the legacy of the Americans who lived between 1776 and 1830, analyzing how they transformed the principles of the revolution into reality.

About the Authors

Joyce Appleby

Joyce ApplebyJoyce Appleby is a professor of History at UCLA. Her previous books include "Liberalism and Republicanism in the Historical Imagination," "Capitalism and a New Social Order:The Republican Vision of the 1790s," "Telling the Truth about History"and "Recollections of the Early Republic: Selected Autobiographies."
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Past Airings

  • Saturday, July 4th at 6pm (ET)
  • Saturday, February 28th at 6pm (ET)
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