The American future a history
Historian Simon Schama offers an essential historical perspective on the 2008 presidential election and its importance for reclaiming America's original ideal and takes a long look at the multiple crises besetting the United States and asks how these problems look in the mirror of time. In four cruc...
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| 100 | 1 | |a Schama, Simon. | |
| 245 | 1 | 4 | |a The American future : |b a history / |c Simon Schama. |
| 250 | |a 1st U.S. ed. | ||
| 260 | |a New York : |b Ecco, |c c2009. | ||
| 300 | |a xii, 400 p., [16] p. of plates : |b ill. (some col.) ; |c 24 cm. | ||
| 500 | |a "First published in Great Britain in 2008 by The Bodley Head"--T.p. verso. | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (p. [371]-378) and index. | ||
| 520 | |a Historian Simon Schama offers an essential historical perspective on the 2008 presidential election and its importance for reclaiming America's original ideal and takes a long look at the multiple crises besetting the United States and asks how these problems look in the mirror of time. In four crucial debates--on wars, religion, race and immigration, and the relationship between natural resources and prosperity--Schama looks back to find lost insights into the future.--From publisher description. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Prologue : Iowa waltz -- Part I : American war -- Veterans Day : 11 November 2007 -- The fight for the citadel : soldiering and the Founding Fathers -- The Drop Zone Cafe, San Antonio, Texas, 3 March 2008 -- The trials of the Roman -- Taking sides -- Father and son -- The quartermaster general 1861-1864 -- John Rodgers Meigs, the Shenandoah Valley, summer and fall 1864 -- Montgomery Meigs and Louisa Rodgers Meigs, October 1864-December 1865 -- Washington D.C., February 2008 -- Hamilton resurrexit -- American war : Rohrbach-lès-Bitche, the Maginot Line near Metz, 10 December 1944 -- Part II : American fervor -- Atlantic City, August 1964 -- Saved -- Raven, Virginia, 2008 -- Providence -- "Whereas Almighty God hath created the mind free--" -- National sin -- Jarena Lee -- The sovereignty of the voice -- Easter Sunday, 2008, Ebenezer Baptist Church, Atlanta -- Great white hopes? -- Ruleville, Mississippi, 31 August 1962 -- Part III : What is an American? -- Twilight, Downing Street, June 2008 -- Citizen Heartbreak : France, August 1794 -- The German threat -- The Chicken Club, south Texas, July 2008 -- The immigrant problem in Texas -- The German threat - again -- The importance of Fred Bee -- Grace under pressure -- Jefferson's Koran -- Part IV : American plenty -- Running on empty? -- Strawberry fields, 1775 -- White Path, 1801-1823 -- 1893 -- The church of irrigation -- Ghost house -- Roll up that lawn -- Windmills -- Epilogue: The impotent angel? | |
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| 651 | 0 | |a United States |x Foreign relations. | |
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