The American Revelation: Ten Ideals That Shaped Our Country from the Puritans to the Cold WarSt. Martin's Publishing Group, 1 apr 2007 - 272 pagina's Neil Baldwin, one of the most exciting intellectual historians, has written extensively about the great thinkers and innovators who have shaped our unique American identity. In THE AMERICAN REVELATION, he turns his energies to the unfolding story of how the American spirit developed over 400 years. |
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... Adams , and Thomas Jefferson to create an enduring coat of arms and a symbolic slogan for the thirteen . United States of America . After trying various phrases and sketches , Du Simitière selected three words that have come to express ...
... Adam , and in “ devilishly dif- ficult , " crabbed penmanship made note of the occasion in his notebook- he did not call it a journal , considering his writing to be " history " or " annals . " This was as good an occasion as any to ...
... Adam , was a " wealthy clothier " providing capital for the purchase of wool from Stour Valley sheep farmers . In 1544 Adam Winthrop ( the elder ) , the duly- elected master of the Clothworkers , acquired the manor house of Groton , set ...
... Adam and Noah to come and inhabit , " and now , Cotton said , he was providing for the sons of Albion to do the very same : " He hath placed thee in Rehoboth , in a peaceable place . " 22 oward evening the same Sabbath day , the ...
... Adam , who as a consequence , Winthrop said , was " rent " -separated from his Creator , man had never ceased to define himself by trying to reconstruct that original divine connection , " the Cause between God and us . " The Puritans ...
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E PLURIBUS UNUM Pierre Eugène Du Simitière 1776 | 43 |
SELFRELIANCE Ralph Waldo Emerson 1841 | 61 |
MANIFEST DESTINY John L OSullivan 1845 286 | 79 |
PROGRESS AND POVERTY Henry George 1879 | 99 |
THE SPHERE OF ACTION Jane Addams 1902 | 121 |
THE MELTINGPOT Israel Zangwill 1908 | 143 |
THE NEGRO IN OUR HISTORY | 163 |
THE MARSHALL PLAN George C Marshall 1947 | 183 |
A Sense of History | 205 |
Bibliography | 235 |
Illustration Acknowledgments and Permissions | 255 |
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