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Jon Meacham helps us understand the present moment in American politics and life by looking back at critical times in our history when hope overcame division and fear. He explores contentious periods an dhow presidents and citizens came together to defeat the forces of anger, intolerance, and extremism.--
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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We've let the meaning of America be reduced to guesswork. It might not be too late. Our democratic republic is failing, and it shouldn't be a surprise. We can't fly a plane without training; we can't practice medicine without attending medical school. And yet we expect the American people to wield the full power of their citizenship, the product of the most revolutionary governmental thinking in human history, without any education. We no longer teach...
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English
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Only once in the last 250,000 years did humans lift themselves out of their natural environment of poverty. It happened in eighteenth-century England, and it was an accident. The emergence of freedom and prosperity was nothing short of a miracle. The radical ideas that made the miracle possible were written not just into the Constitution, but in our hearts, laying the groundwork for our uniquely prosperous society. But now the principles of liberty...
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English
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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 on America's history, philosophy, and culture will only tear us apart. Who are the disintegrationists? From Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United...
Author
Publisher
Broadside Books
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"--
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Series
Publisher
Core Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"The American flag, the Statue of Liberty, and US popular culture are all world-famous symbols of the United States. In The American Identity, readers will learn about the history and meaning behind these and other parts of the United States' unique cultural identity."--Publisher's website.
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Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
A lively, thought-provoking intellectual history of the golden age of American utopianism--and the bold, revolutionary, often eccentric visions for the future put forward by five of history's most influential utopian movements. --Publisher
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Explains how the influences of dreamers, zealots, hucksters, and superstitious groups shaped America's tendency toward a rich fantasy life, citing the roles of individuals from P.T. Barnum to Donald Trump in perpetuating conspiracy theories, self-delusion, and magical thinking.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
How did the Vietnam War change the way we think of ourselves as a people and a nation? Christian G. Appy, author of the widely praised oral history of the Vietnam War Patriots, now examines the relationship between the war's realities and myths and its impact on our national identity, conscience, pride, shame, popular culture, and postwar foreign policy.
15) American Gods
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Publisher
W. Morrow
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 28
Language
English
Description
Just released from prison, Shadow encounters Mr. Wednesday, an enigmatic stranger who seems to know a lot about him, and when Mr. Wednesday offers him a job as his bodyguard, Shadow accepts and is plunged into a dark and perilous world.
16) Wake up America: the nine virtues that made our nation great--and why we need them more than ever
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Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
A co-host of Fox News Channel's "The Five" draws on his life story to identify nine values on which America was built...
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Washington’s urgent message was adopted by Jefferson after years of opposition and quoted by Lincoln in defense of the Union. Woodrow Wilson invoked it for nation-building; Eisenhower for Cold War; Reagan for religion. Now the Farewell Address may inspire a new generation to re-center our politics and reunite our nation through the lessons rooted in Washington’s experience.
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