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crl-15076	Roberts, Gerald F.	The Strength of a People: The Idea of an Informed Citizenry in America, 1650-1870 (Book Review)	1996-09-01	2	.pdf	application/pdf	1258	59	62	In fact, his book can be read as a companion piece to other recent volumes that focus on the prob- lems of American democracy at the end of the twentieth century, including works such as Robert H. Wiebe's Self-Rule: A Cultural History of American Democracy (1995) and Lawrence K. Grossman's The Electronic Republic: Reshaping Democracy in the Information Age (1995). After the Revolution it was nurtured and shaped by Washing- ton, Adams, Jefferson, Madison, and oth- ers, although early American leaders dif- fered on how the citizenry should be- come educated and informed, and were ambivalent about the role of the common people in the new republic.	cache/crl-15076.pdf	txt/crl-15076.txt