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Land of Hope - An Invitation to the Great American Story (Hardcover)
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Land of Hope - An Invitation to the Great American Story (Hardcover)
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We 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 American readers a
clear, informative, and inspiring narrative account of their own
country. Such an account can shape and deepen their sense of the
land they inhabit and, by making them understand that land's roots,
and share in its memories, will equip them for the privileges and
responsibilities of citizenship in American society. It will
provide them with an enduring sense of membership in one of the
greatest enterprises in human history: the exciting, perilous, and
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 or partial outlook of specialized
professional academic historians, an outlook that leads to a
fragmented and fractured view of modern American society and fails
to convey to American readers the greater arc of their own history.
Or they disproportionately reflect the outlook of radical critics
of American society, whose one-sided accounts lack the balance of a
larger perspective and have had 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 be able 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 of the
American past and an inspiring one. This account seeks to provide
both.
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