Give Me Liberty - Richard Brookhiser
A History of America's Exceptional Idea
KORTE INHOUD
An award-winning historian recounts the history of American liberty through the stories of twelve 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 twelve 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 promis...
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2019, 304pp, Hardcover in goede staat, zonder stofomslag / Hardcover in fine condition, no dustjacket. [Auteur: Brookhiser, Richard] [Taal: en] [Uitgever: Basic Books] [Jaar: 2019] [Titel: Give Me Liberty / A History of America's Exceptional Idea]
