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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... turning each chapter into a combination biography , history , and political lesson . Baldwin provides ample opportunity for the reader to seek comparisons between the world of these historical documents and their own modern situation ...
... turn to galvanizing beliefs that will provide a unifying focus for our thoughts and our lives in an instructive mental conversation with the past . The ten ideals discussed in The American Revelation are the rightful patrimony of all ...
... turn , took inspiration from Christ's words in the Sermon on the Mount in the fifth book of the Gospel according to St. Matthew : " Ye are the light of the world . A city that is set upon a hill cannot be hid . " President Reagan , like ...
... turns around the global perspective begun when we followed John Winthrop westward on a voyage of hopeful renewal to foreign shores . In 1948 the Marshall Plan ex- tended America's helping hand for the urgent cause of European recovery ...
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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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