audiobook The Cosmic Perils of Qadi Ḥusayn Maybudī In Fifteenth-Century Iran (Islamicate Intellectual History) by Alexandra Dunietz in History

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An extraordinary book.—Gordon S. Wood; Brown UniversityHaving won independence from England; America faced a new question: Would this be politically one nation; or would it not? E Pluribus Unum is a spirited look at how that question came to be answered.That the American people introduced a governmental system adequate to check the very forces unleashed by the Revolution—this; writes Professor McDonald; "was the miracle of the age. . . . The French; the Russians; the Italians; the Germans; all the planet's peoples in their turn; would become so unrestrained as to lose contact with sanity. The Americans might have suffered a similar history had they followed the lead of those who; in 1787 and 1788; spoke in the name . . . of popular 'rights.' But there were giants on the earth in those days; and they spoke in the name of the nation. . . ."Forrest McDonald is Professor of History at the University of Alabama.