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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... wrote and pub- lished Common Sense , the most influential and politically engaged pam- phlet of its time , perhaps of all time . It was a hymn to America as a republic meant to survive for posterity . Paine's inflammatory rhetoric ...
... wrote , " [ is ] to overspread the continent alotted by Providence for the great experiment of liberty . " For John O'Sullivan , manifest destiny heeded a higher purpose . Chapter 6 is about a neglected supporting player in American ...
... wrote , " is the sphere of action . " Three generations of a Jewish immigrant family living in a brownstone tenement in a shabby neighborhood of Staten Island within view of the statue of Liberty Enlightening the World were the ...
... wrote , " and so pleasant a sweet ether as did much refresh us , and there came a smell off the shore like the smell of a garden . " With the wind behind her , the Arbella passed Camden Hills and Penobscot Bay . A wild pigeon alighted ...
... wrote with ambivalence and melancholy of his beloved green and pleasant England , " this lande growes wearye of her Inhabitants . " A Stour Valley countryman for his whole life and the descendant of country gentlemen , he was depressed ...
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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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