Give Me Liberty: A History of America's Exceptional Idea - Hardcover
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Languages:EnglishPublisher:Basic BooksISBN-13:9781541699137ISBN-10:1541699130UPC:9781541699137Book Category:History, Political ScienceBook Subcategory:United States, Political Freedom, Political IdeologiesBook Topic:Nationalism & PatriotismSize:8.40 x 5.30 x 1.10 inchesWeight:0.9017Product ID:SCXMPBFDBV
An award-winning historian recounts the history of American liberty through the stories of thirteen 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 States to India, from Russia to Burma -- nationalism is being invoked for unworthy ends: to disdain minorities or to support despots. As a result, nationalism has become to many a dirty word.
In Give Me Liberty, award-winning historian and biographer Richard Brookhiser offers up a truer and more inspiring story of American nationalism as it has evolved over four hundred years. He examines America's history through thirteen documents that made the United States a new country in a new world: a free country. We are what we are because of them; we stay true to what we are by staying true to them.
Americans have always sought liberty, asked for it, fought for it; every victory has been the fulfillment of old hopes and promises. This is our nationalism, and we should be proud of it.
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 States to India, from Russia to Burma -- nationalism is being invoked for unworthy ends: to disdain minorities or to support despots. As a result, nationalism has become to many a dirty word.
In Give Me Liberty, award-winning historian and biographer Richard Brookhiser offers up a truer and more inspiring story of American nationalism as it has evolved over four hundred years. He examines America's history through thirteen documents that made the United States a new country in a new world: a free country. We are what we are because of them; we stay true to what we are by staying true to them.
Americans have always sought liberty, asked for it, fought for it; every victory has been the fulfillment of old hopes and promises. This is our nationalism, and we should be proud of it.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Basic BooksISBN-13:9781541699137ISBN-10:1541699130UPC:9781541699137Book Category:History, Political ScienceBook Subcategory:United States, Political Freedom, Political IdeologiesBook Topic:Nationalism & PatriotismSize:8.40 x 5.30 x 1.10 inchesWeight:0.9017Product ID:SCXMPBFDBV
Richard Brookhiser is a senior editor of National Review and the author of thirteen books, including John Marshall: The Man Who Made the Supreme Court, Founders' Son: A Life of Abraham Lincoln, and James Madison. He lives in New York City.
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