To America - Stephen E. Ambrose
personal reflections of an historian
KORTE INHOUD
In To America, Stephen E. Ambrose, one of the country's most influential historians, reflects on his long career as an American historian and explains what an historian's job is all about. He celebrates America's spirit, which has carried us so far. He confronts its failures and struggles. As always in his much acclaimed work, Ambrose brings alive the men and women, famous and not, who have peopled our history and made the United States a model for the world. Taking a few swings at today's political correctness, as well as his own early biases, Ambrose grapples with the country's historic sins of racism, its neglect and ill treatment of Native Americans, and its tragic errors (such as the war in Vietnam, which he ardently opposed on campus, where he was a professor). He reflects on some of the country's early founders who were progressive thinkers while living a contradiction as slaveholders, great men such as Washington and Jefferson. He contemplates the genius of Andrew Jackson's defeat of a vastly superio...
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2002Uitgever: Simon & Schuster265 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 0743202759ISBN-13: 9780743202756Koop dit boek tweedehands
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2002, hardcover with dustjacket, good copy, 1st ed, 1st print. [Auteur: Ambrose, Stephen E.] [Taal: en] [Uitgever: Simon & Shuster] [Jaar: 2002] [Titel: To America: Personal Reflections of an Historian]
