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Land of hope: an invitation to the great American story

✍ Scribed by Wilfred M. McClay

Publisher: Encounter Books
Year: 2019
Tongue: English
Weight: 2 MB
Edition: First American edition
Category: Fiction
ISBN: 1594039372

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

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...

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