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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... months after the cataclysm of 9/11 , the piece endeavored to capture the powerful national theme " of America as a place apart ... from George Washington's warning to the new republic against ' entangling alliances ' to Ronald Reagan's ...
... Month . Carter Woodson's stubborn insistence on the legitimacy of black heritage laid down a path for all disenfranchised Americans . The tenth and final chapter of The American Revelation turns around the global perspective begun when ...
... months since the 350 - ton Arbella pulled away from Yarmouth on the Isle of Wight , stemmed the tide with a slight wind , and slipped past the Needles into the English Channel , beyond Plymouth and Cornwall into the choppy At- lantic ...
... months before the defeat of the Spanish Armada by the British navy.4 As children , John and his sisters - Anne , the oldest child ; Jane and Lucy , younger than John - enjoyed the unfettered pleasures of country life . The lad developed ...
... months during the Seven Years ' War on the King of Prussia , another privateer out of London in need of a crew . The ship's mission , pa- trolling the English Channel under Capt . Edward Menzies , was a success , seizing half a dozen ...
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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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