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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Encounter Books,
2020.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.
