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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... ideas that underlie [ our culture ] . ... This is a book for readers in need of reacquaintance with the whole point of America in the first place . In a perfect world , it would be on the bedside table of every Washington politician ...
... ideas that underlie [ our culture ] . . . . This is a book for readers in need of reacquaintance with the whole point of America in the first place . In a perfect world , it would be on the bedside table of every Washington politician ...
... ideas that undergird our great democracy , gifted students must study such exceptional historians , those authors who have a comprehensive understanding of the scope of our nation's origin and development ... skilled , eloquent mentors to.
... members of the company in the same light as Brewster's followers , nor like the Scottish Presbyterians , treasonous zealots whose " wicked myndes " could not accept the idea of remaining within a national 12 The American Revelation.
... idea of remaining within a national church . Sepa- ratists even descended to the claim that the churches of England were not legitimate houses of worship , to which Winthrop mildly countered that " the corruption of a thing doth not ...
Inhoudsopgave
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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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