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Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"The current climate of partisan fury is not new, and in The Soul of America, Meacham shows us how what Lincoln called the "better angels of our nature" have won the day. Painting surprising portraits of Presidents, including Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Ulysses S. Grant, Woodrow Wilson, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Dwight Eisenhower, Lyndon B. Johnson, and others, and illuminating the courage of such influential citizen activists...
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Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"In this timely history, the editor of the National Review chronicles the history of nationalism and its intellectual roots, revealing how this political model-a refutation of globalism-became maligned and why it offers a viable way forward for America"--
Author
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
A razor-sharp thinker offers a new understanding of our post-truth world and explains the American instinct to believe in make-believe, from the Pilgrims to P. T. Barnum to Disneyland to zealots of every stripe . . . to Donald Trump. In this sweeping, eloquent history of America, Kurt Andersen demonstrates that what's happening in our country today-this strange, post-factual, "fake news" moment we're all living through-is not something entirely new,...
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Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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At a time of self-reflection in a divided America, historian David McCullough has collected some of his most important speeches in a volume designed to identify core American values to which we all subscribe - regardless of region, political party, or ethnic background - and help to guide us as we find our way forward.
10) Americans
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Americans are different from one another in many ways. But despite these differences, Americans share certain ways of doing and being that hold us all together. The author shares the story of what it is to be American.
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Language
English
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A growing number of Americans want to tear down what it's taken us 250 years to build-and they'll start by canceling our shared history, ideals, and culture. Traditional areas of civic agreement are vanishing. We can't agree on what makes America special. We can't even agree that America is special. We're coming to the point that we can't even agree what the word America itself means. "Disintegrationists" say we're stronger together, but their assault...
Pub. Date
[2014], c2014
Language
English
Description
In this edition of Moyers & Company, historian Harvey J. Kaye talks with Bill about FDR's January 1941 State of the Union address, delivered less than a year before Pearl Harbor and America's entry into World War II. In his "Four Freedoms speech" Roosavelt envisioned a progressive society in which freedom of speech and religion, along with freedom from want and fear were shared across the world. But what is the state of these freedoms today? Kaye...
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Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
From a Pulitzer Prize finalist, a new and eye-opening interpretation of the meaning of the frontier, from early westward expansion to Trump's border wall. Ever since this nation's inception, the idea of an open and ever-expanding frontier has been central to American identity. Symbolizing a future of endless promise, it was the foundation of the United States' belief in itself as an exceptional nation--democratic, individualistic, forward-looking....
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
What would the world look like if America never existed? Dinesh D'Souza, bestselling author and creator of 2016: Obama's America, explores this fascinating question in this stirring, thought-provoking documentary. Through re-enactments of landmark events in America's history and insightful interviews with leading historians, D'Souza brings us face-to-face with the brave heroes who built a great nation, and offers a powerful defense against critics...
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Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
One of America's most respected writers takes an epic journey across America, Airstream in tow, and asks everyday Americans what unites and divides a country as endlessly diverse as it is large. Standing on a wind-scoured island off the Alaskan coast, Philip Caputo marveled that its Inupiat Eskimo schoolchildren pledge allegiance to the same flag as the children of Cuban immigrants in Key West, six thousand miles away. And a question began to take...
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Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"In Roots Quest, sociologist Jackie Hogan digs into our current genealogy boom to ask why we are so interested in our family history. She shows how the surging popularity of genealogy is a response to large-scale social changes, and she explores the way our increasingly rootless society fuels the quest for an elemental sense of belonging--for roots."--Provided by publisher.
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