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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... tion entered the national vocabulary . John Louis O'Sullivan was a thirty- two - year - old lawyer , Jacksonian Democrat , and editor of the New York Morning News and the United States Magazine and Democratic Review . His passionate ...
... tion of his best - selling work , Progress and Poverty , in 1879. Dropping out of school in Philadelphia at thirteen , George spent most of his adult life work- ing as a typesetter and printer in San Francisco . Even when he founded his ...
... tion removed the people's ability to petition for legislative recourse for their grievances , and Winthrop was deprived of his attorneyship . Charles's royal- ist ally , Bishop of London William Laud , chancellor of Oxford and a ...
... tion . 19 Winthrop had complex financial agreements to negotiate with cautious company partners who decided , at least in the first year , not to make the journey . He had to attend to the sale of his own house and lands , a drawn- out ...
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Inhoudsopgave
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COMMON SENSE Thomas Paine 1776 | 23 |
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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