Land of hope an invitation to the great American story
We have a glut of text and trade books on American history. But what we don't have is a compact, inexpensive, authoritative, and compulsively readable book that will offer to intelligent young Americans a coherent, persuasive, and inspiring narrative of their own country. Such an account will shape...
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| 505 | 0 | |a One long story -- Beginnings : settlement and unsettlement -- The shaping of British North America -- The revolution of self-rule -- A war, a nation, and a wound -- The experiment begins -- From Jefferson to Jackson : the rise of the common man -- The culture of democracy -- The old south and slavery -- The gathering storm -- The house divides -- The ordeal of Reconstruction -- A nation transformed -- Becoming a world power -- The Progressive Era -- Woodrow Wilson and the Great War -- From boom to bust -- The New Deal -- The finest hour : World War II -- All thoughts and things were split : the Cold War -- Out of balance : the turbulent sixties -- Fall and restoration : from Nixon to Reagan -- The world since the Cold War -- The shape of American patriotism. | |
| 520 | 0 | |a We have a glut of text and trade books on American history. But what we don't have is a compact, inexpensive, authoritative, and compulsively readable book that will offer to intelligent young Americans a coherent, persuasive, and inspiring narrative of their own country. Such an account will shape and deepen their sense of the land they inhabit, and by making them understand that land's roots, will equip them for the privileges and responsibilities of citizenship in American society, and provide them with a vivid and enduring sense of membership in one of the greatest enterprises in human history: the exciting, perilous, and immensely consequential story of their own country. The existing texts simply fail to tell that story with energy and conviction. They are more likely to reflect the skeptical outlook of specialized professional academic historians, an outlook that supports a fragmented and fractured view of modern American society, and that fails to convey to young people the greater arc of that history. Or they reflect the outlook of radical critics of American society, who seek to debunk the standard American narrative, and has had an enormous, and largely negative, upon the teaching of American history in American high schools and colleges. This state of affairs cannot continue for long without producing serious consequences. A great nation needs and deserves a great and coherent narrative, as an expression of its own self-understanding; and it needs to convey that narrative to its young effectively. It perhaps goes without saying that such a narrative cannot be a fairy tale or a whitewash of the past; it will not be convincing if it is not truthful. But there is no necessary contradiction between an honest account and an inspiring one. This account seeks to provide both. | |
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