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Book American Exceptionalism

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  • Author : Ian Tyrrell
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2024-06-19
  • ISBN : 0226833429
  • Pages : 284 pages

Download or read book American Exceptionalism written by Ian Tyrrell and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2024-06-19 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A powerful dissection of a core American myth. The idea that the United States is unlike every other country in world history is a surprisingly resilient one. Throughout his distinguished career, Ian Tyrrell has been one of the most influential historians of the idea of American exceptionalism, but he has never written a book focused solely on it until now. The notion that American identity might be exceptional emerged, Tyrrell shows, from the belief that the nascent early republic was not simply a postcolonial state but a genuinely new experiment in an imperialist world dominated by Britain. Prior to the Civil War, American exceptionalism fostered declarations of cultural, economic, and spatial independence. As the country grew in population and size, becoming a major player in the global order, its exceptionalist beliefs came more and more into focus—and into question. Over time, a political divide emerged: those who believed that America’s exceptionalism was the basis of its virtue and those who saw America as either a long way from perfect or actually fully unexceptional, and thus subject to universal demands for justice. Tyrrell masterfully articulates the many forces that made American exceptionalism such a divisive and definitional concept. Today, he notes, the demands that people acknowledge America’s exceptionalism have grown ever more strident, even as the material and moral evidence for that exceptionalism—to the extent that there ever was any—has withered away.

Book Catalogue XIII

Download or read book Catalogue XIII written by and published by . This book was released on 1934 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Dictionary Catalog of the University Library  1919 1962

Download or read book Dictionary Catalog of the University Library 1919 1962 written by University of California, Los Angeles. Library and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 1074 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The American Phrenological Journal and Life Illustrated

Download or read book The American Phrenological Journal and Life Illustrated written by and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Rural America

Download or read book Rural America written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book American Journal of Education

Download or read book American Journal of Education written by William Russell and published by . This book was released on 1827 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Ladies  Repository

Download or read book The Ladies Repository written by and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 1008 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The idea of this women's magazine originated with Samuel Williams, a Cincinnati Methodist, who thought that Christian women needed a magazine less worldly than Godey's Lady's Book and Snowden's Lady's Companion. Written largely by ministers, this exceptionally well-printed little magazine contained well-written essays of a moral character, plenty of poetry, articles on historical and scientific matters, and book reviews. Among western writers were Alice Cary, who contributed over a hundred sketches and poems, her sister Phoebe Cary, Otway Curry, Moncure D. Conway, and Joshua R. Giddings; and New England contributors included Mrs. Lydia Sigourney, Hannah F. Gould, and Julia C.R Dorr. By 1851, each issue published a peice of music and two steel plates, usually landscapes or portraits. When Davis E. Clark took over the editorship in 1853, the magazine became brighter and attained a circulation of 40,000. Unlike his predecessors, Clark included fictional pieces and made the Repository a magazine for the whole family. After the war it began to decline and in 1876 was replaced by the National Repository. The Ladies' Repository was an excellent representative of the Methodist mind and heart. Its essays, sketches, and poems, its good steel engravings, and its moral tone gave it a charm all its own. -- Cf. American periodicals, 1741-1900.

Book Young Men s Era

Download or read book Young Men s Era written by and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 914 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book America Annuals of Education  V  1 4  Jan  18260 Dec  1829  New Ser   V  1  No  1 5  Jan  July 1830  3d Ser   V 1 9  Aug  1830 Dec  1839

Download or read book America Annuals of Education V 1 4 Jan 18260 Dec 1829 New Ser V 1 No 1 5 Jan July 1830 3d Ser V 1 9 Aug 1830 Dec 1839 written by William Russell and published by . This book was released on 1828 with total page 782 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The End of White Christian America

Download or read book The End of White Christian America written by Robert P. Jones and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-07-12 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The founder and CEO of Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) and columnist for the Atlantic describes how white Protestant Christians have declined in influence and power since the 1990s and explores the effect this has had on America, "--NoveList.

Book Thomas Reid

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  • Author : Alexander Campbell Fraser
  • Publisher : Good Press
  • Release : 2021-11-05
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 128 pages

Download or read book Thomas Reid written by Alexander Campbell Fraser and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-11-05 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book by Alexander Campbell Fraser attempts to present the beliefs, theories, and thoughts of Thomas Reid in a new light. He tries to showcase him in line with the present-day thoughts. It focuses on the development of the Common Sense philosophy.

Book The Joy of the Gospel

Download or read book The Joy of the Gospel written by Pope Francis and published by Image. This book was released on 2014-10-07 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The perfect gift! A specially priced, beautifully designed hardcover edition of The Joy of the Gospel with a foreword by Robert Barron and an afterword by James Martin, SJ. “The joy of the gospel fills the hearts and lives of all who encounter Jesus… In this Exhortation I wish to encourage the Christian faithful to embark upon a new chapter of evangelization marked by this joy, while pointing out new paths for the Church’s journey in years to come.” – Pope Francis This special edition of Pope Francis's popular message of hope explores themes that are important for believers in the 21st century. Examining the many obstacles to faith and what can be done to overcome those hurdles, he emphasizes the importance of service to God and all his creation. Advocating for “the homeless, the addicted, refugees, indigenous peoples, the elderly who are increasingly isolated and abandoned,” the Holy Father shows us how to respond to poverty and current economic challenges that affect us locally and globally. Ultimately, Pope Francis demonstrates how to develop a more personal relationship with Jesus Christ, “to recognize the traces of God’s Spirit in events great and small.” Profound in its insight, yet warm and accessible in its tone, The Joy of the Gospel is a call to action to live a life motivated by divine love and, in turn, to experience heaven on earth. Includes a foreword by Robert Barron, author of Catholicism: A Journey to the Heart of the Faith and James Martin, SJ, author of Jesus: A Pilgrimage

Book Christian Union

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  • Release : 1893
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 958 pages

Download or read book Christian Union written by and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 958 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Fantasyland

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  • Author : Kurt Andersen
  • Publisher : Random House
  • Release : 2017-09-05
  • ISBN : 1588366871
  • Pages : 480 pages

Download or read book Fantasyland written by Kurt Andersen and published by Random House. This book was released on 2017-09-05 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “The single most important explanation, and the fullest explanation, of how Donald Trump became president of the United States . . . nothing less than the most important book that I have read this year.”—Lawrence O’Donnell How did we get here? In this sweeping, eloquent history of America, Kurt Andersen shows that what’s happening in our country today—this post-factual, “fake news” moment we’re all living through—is not something new, but rather the ultimate expression of our national character. America was founded by wishful dreamers, magical thinkers, and true believers, by hucksters and their suckers. Fantasy is deeply embedded in our DNA. Over the course of five centuries—from the Salem witch trials to Scientology to the Satanic Panic of the 1980s, from P. T. Barnum to Hollywood and the anything-goes, wild-and-crazy sixties, from conspiracy theories to our fetish for guns and obsession with extraterrestrials—our love of the fantastic has made America exceptional in a way that we've never fully acknowledged. From the start, our ultra-individualism was attached to epic dreams and epic fantasies—every citizen was free to believe absolutely anything, or to pretend to be absolutely anybody. With the gleeful erudition and tell-it-like-it-is ferocity of a Christopher Hitchens, Andersen explores whether the great American experiment in liberty has gone off the rails. Fantasyland could not appear at a more perfect moment. If you want to understand Donald Trump and the culture of twenty-first-century America, if you want to know how the lines between reality and illusion have become dangerously blurred, you must read this book. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE “This is a blockbuster of a book. Take a deep breath and dive in.”—Tom Brokaw “[An] absorbing, must-read polemic . . . a provocative new study of America’s cultural history.”—Newsday “Compelling and totally unnerving.”—The Village Voice “A frighteningly convincing and sometimes uproarious picture of a country in steep, perhaps terminal decline that would have the founding fathers weeping into their beards.”—The Guardian “This is an important book—the indispensable book—for understanding America in the age of Trump.”—Walter Isaacson, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Leonardo da Vinci

Book The Christian Union

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1888
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 844 pages

Download or read book The Christian Union written by and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 844 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: