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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... become a community . It would not be Par- adise , but it would be a natural terrain upon which to enact a new life . The anticipation of such a reconstructed commonwealth , he said , inspired him to put pen to paper and " gave [ me ] ...
... become from one another in different towns and villages , would maintain and strengthen the social " Covenant , " as written in Galicians 6.2 : " Bear ye one another's burdens and so fulfill the law of Christ . " 28 In Congregationalist ...
... become ] a spearhead of world Protestantism . " 30 What if their communal citadel should fail in this " divine opportunity " ? What if the " lamp of saving light , " the beacon of faith the Massachusetts Puritans held proudly upward for ...
... city will stand or fall , stagnate or prevail . It would become the responsibility of every succeeding generation to rein- vigorate the city on a hill . 2 Common Sense It's time that we realize that our City on a Hill 21.
... become unfit for anything else .... Every year's experience gained in the excise is a year's experience lost in trade ; and by the time they become wise officers they become foolish workmen . " These social inequities laid the ...
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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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