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

Joyce Appleby

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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. 

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

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  • Saturday, July 2nd at 6pm (ET)
  • Saturday, July 4th at 6pm (ET)
  • Saturday, February 28th at 6pm (ET)
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