The American Future: A HistoryHarper Collins, 19 mei 2009 - 432 pagina's “With eloquence, wit, passion, and irony, The American Future traces the history of an idea: that of our national destiny….A book of beautiful writing, peppered with wisecracks, slashed with rapier thrusts.” —Philadelphia Inquirer A De Tocqueville for the 21st century, Simon Schama, NBCC Award winning author of Rough Crossings offers an essential, historical, long view analysis of the American character in The American Future. Shama examines four themes—war, race and faith, immigration, and custodianship of the land—through the prism of the historic 2008 presidential election in a magnificent work that the Wall Street Journal calls a “celebration of American resiliency.” Niall Ferguson says, “I hope Obama will have this book on his bedside table.” |
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AMERICAN | 25 |
soldiering and the Founding Fathers | 33 |
The Drop Zone Cafe San Antonio Texas 3 March 2008 | 55 |
Taking sides | 70 |
Father and | 78 |
The quartermaster general 186164 | 85 |
John Rodgers Meigs the Shenandoah Valley | 100 |
The German threat | 238 |
The Chicken Club south Texas July 2008 | 244 |
The immigrant problem in Texas | 246 |
The German threatagain | 263 |
The importance of Fred Bee | 268 |
Grace under pressure | 283 |
Jeffersons Koran | 295 |
AMERICAN PLENTY 33 Running on empty? | 303 |
Washington D C February 2008 | 108 |
RohrbachlèsBitche the Maginot Line | 123 |
Atlantic City August 1964 | 130 |
Saved | 138 |
Raven Virginia 2008 | 148 |
Providence | 161 |
National | 176 |
Jarena | 186 |
The sovereignty of the voice | 195 |
Easter Sunday 2008 Ebenezer Baptist Church Atlanta | 206 |
Ruleville Mississippi 31 August 1962 | 213 |
WHAT IS AN AMERICAN? 24 Twilight Downing Street June 2008 | 219 |
France August 1794 | 223 |
Strawberry fields 1775 | 312 |
White Path 180123 | 316 |
The church of irrigation | 336 |
Ghost house | 344 |
Roll up that lawn | 351 |
Windmills | 357 |
The Impotent Angel? | 363 |
Bibliography | 371 |
Acknowledgments | 379 |
Picture Acknowledgments | 383 |
Index | 385 |
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