Founding Visions: The Ideas, Individuals, and Intersections That Created America - Hardcover

by Lance Banning (Author), Todd Estes (Editor), Gordon S. Wood (Foreword by)

Lance Banning was one of the most distinguished historians of his generation. His first book, The Jeffersonian Persuasion: Evolution of a Party Ideology, was a groundbreaking study of the ideas and principles that influenced political conflict in the early American Republic. His revisionist masterpiece, The Sacred Fire of Liberty: James Madison and the Founding of the Federal Republic, received the Merle Curti Award in Intellectual History from the Organization of American Historians and was a f

Author Biography

Lance Banning (1942--2006) taught at Brown University and the University of Kentucky and held a senior Fulbright appointment at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands in 1997. During his prolific career, he held fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the National Humanities Center, and the Center for the History of Freedom.

Todd Estes is associate professor of history at Oakland University and the author of The Jay Treaty Debate, Public Opinion, and the Evolution of Early American Political Culture. Estes received his PhD from the University of Kentucky, under Lance Banning's direction.