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The Enlightenment in America
Ernest Cassara is currently a professor of history at George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, and has served as chairman of the Department of History at that institution. ... Cassaras works include The Enlightenment in America (1975), History of the United States of America: A Guide to Information Sources (1977), Universalism in America: A Documentary History of a Liberal Faith (1971), Hosea Ballou: The Challenge to Orthodoxy (1961). The Enlightenment in America was Cassaras very first book, which revealed about the life and thought in eighteenth-century America.
The author of this thin volume states that his purpose is to make a "modest effort" toward a "synthesis of the various facets which made up the Enlightenment in America. ... But nowhere does he develop explicitly what he means by the "Enlightenment. ... It turns out that the "Enlightenment" was whatever Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, or Thomas Jefferson wrote or did. The Enlightenment in America provides a convenient summary of familiar and not always up-to-date knowledge concerning a few major eighteenth-century Americans.
Approximate Word count = 837
Approximate Pages = 3.3
(250 words per page double spaced)
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