Give me liberty a history of America's exceptional idea
An award-winning historian recounts the history of American liberty through the stories of twelve essential documents. Nationalism is inevitable: It supplies feelings of belonging, identity, and recognition. It binds us to our neighbors and tells us who we are. But increasingly-from the United State...
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New York :
Basic Books,
2019.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Minutes of the Jamestown general assembly
- Flushing remonstrance
- Trial of John Peter Zenger
- Declaration of Independence
- Constitution of the New-York Manumission Society
- Constitution
- Monroe doctrine
- Seneca Falls declaration
- Gettysburg address
- The new Colossus
- Cross of gold speech
- Arsenal of democracy fireside chat
- Tear down this wall speech
- Conclusion.
