Land of Hope An Invitation to the Great American Story 1st edition by Wilfred M Mcclay 1594039386 9781594039386

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ISBN 10: 1594039386
ISBN 13: 9781594039386
Author: Wilfred M. McClay

A wonderfully written, sweeping narrative history of the United States that will help Americans discover the land they call home High School and College Age Students The Original Land of Hope Narrative in E-book EditionWe 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 people the greater arc of that history. Or they reflect the outlook of radical critics of American society, who seek to debunk the standard American narrative, and has an enormous, and largely negative, effect upon the teaching of American history in American high schools and colleges.  This state of affairs cannot continue for long without producing serious consequences. A great nation needs and deserves a great and coherent narrative, as an expression of its own self-understanding: and it needs to convey that narrative to its young effectively. It perhaps goes without saying that such a narrative cannot be a fairy tale or a whitewash of the past; it will not be convincing if it is not truthful. But there is no necessary contradiction between an honest account and an inspiring one. This account seeks to provide both. 

Land of Hope: An Invitation to the Great American Story 1st Table of contents:

Chapter 1: Beginnings: Settlement and Unsettlement
Chapter 2: The Shaping of British North America
Chapter 3: The Revolution of Self-Rule
Chapter 4: A War, a Nation, and a Wound
Chapter 5: The Experiment Begins
Chapter 6: From Jefferson to Jackson: The Rise of the Common Man
Chapter 7: The Culture of Democracy
Chapter 8: The Old South and Slavery
Chapter 9: The Gathering Storm
Chapter 10: The House Divides
Chapter 11: The Ordeal of Reconstruction
Chapter 12: A Nation Transformed
Chapter 13: Becoming a World Power
Chapter 14: The Progressive Era
Chapter 15: Woodrow Wilson and the Great War
Chapter 16: From Boom to Bust
Chapter 17: The New Deal
Chapter 18: The Finest Hour: World War II
Chapter 19: All Thoughts and Things Were Split: The Cold War
Chapter 20: Out of Balance: The Turbulent Sixties
Chapter 21: Fall and Restoration: From Nixon to Reagan
Chapter 22: The World since the Cold War

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