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Land of Hope - An Invitation to the Great American Story (Paperback)
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Land of Hope - An Invitation to the Great American Story (Paperback)
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For too long we’ve lacked a compact, inexpensive, authoritative,
and compulsively readable book that offers American readers a
clear, informative, and inspiring narrative account of their
country. Such a fresh retelling of the American story is especially
needed today, to shape and deepen young Americans’ sense of the
land they inhabit, help them to understand its roots and share in
its memories, all the while equipping them for the privileges and
responsibilities of citizenship in American society The existing
texts simply fail to tell that story with energy and conviction.
Too often they reflect a fragmented outlook that fails to convey to
American readers the grand trajectory of their own history. 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 its aspirations; and it needs to be able to convey that
narrative to its young effectively. Of course, it goes without
saying that such a narrative cannot be a fairy tale of the past. It
will not be convincing if it is not truthful. But as Land of Hope
brilliantly shows, there is no contradiction between a truthful
account of the American past and an inspiring one. Readers of Land
of Hope will find both in its pages.
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