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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... letters and an inspiring examination of the ideals that have grown to inform our national identity and the figures who set the course ... Neil Baldwin certainly knows how to grab readers into a story . This historical account doubles as ...
... [ M ] y Office is gone , and my Chamber [ in London ] ... so as I hope , we shall now enjoy each other againe as we desire , " John gloomily and wist- fully confided to Margaret in one of the many letters City on a Hill I I.
... letters he sent while profes- sional affairs kept him in town during court sessions and she remained at Groton . " I am veryly persuaded , God will bringe some heavye Affliction upon this lande , & that speedylye . " " 13 In the early ...
... letters to relatives and neighbors asking them to join the core group of Massachusetts Bay Company members and their families . Residents of the counties of Essex and Suffolk made up one - third of the first wave of voy- agers ...
... letter . Its respectful tone made a final statement distancing the Puritans from the ex- treme doctrines of Separatism , imploring the king and his church not to despise the emigrants , but to pray for these nonseparating Puritans as ...
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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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