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American Beliefs : What Keeps a Big Country and a Diverse People United by John
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Item specifics
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- Unit
- ISBN
- 9781566633147
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Dee Publisher, Ivan R.
ISBN-10
1566633141
ISBN-13
9781566633147
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1697129
Product Key Features
Book Title
American Beliefs : What Keeps a Big Country and a Diverse People United
Number of Pages
256 Pages
Language
English
Topic
History & Theory, General, Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), American Government / General
Publication Year
2000
Features
Reprint
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Political Science, History
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.6 in
Item Weight
14.4 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
00-043036
Reviews
"Powerful...a persuasive analysis." --Emory Elliott, Center for Ideas and Society, University of California "John McElroy thoroughly expounds with subtlety and depth a point of capital importance." --John Silber, Boston University "Impressive." --Joseph Epstein, Times Literary Supplement "A magnificent and timely book." --Charles Moskos, Northwestern University "An exceptionally interesting and rewarding book about what makes Americans what they are." --Jonathan Yardley, The Review of Higher Education
Dewey Edition
21
Dewey Decimal
306/.0973
Edition Description
Reprint
Synopsis
Why do so many different people with widely dissimilar ideas and customs get along as Americans? In American Beliefs , John McElroy identifies and explains those essential ideas that keep a big country and a diverse people united, tracing them historically from their origins in the earliest experiences of the American colonists. A powerful antidote to decades of concentration on the differences among Americans."A magnificent and timely book. John McElroy picks up where de Tocqueville left off."-Charles Moskos., Why do so many different people with widely dissimilar ideas and customs get along as Americans? In American Beliefs, John McElroy identifies and explains those essential ideas that keep a big country and a diverse people united, tracing them historically from their origins in the earliest experiences of the American colonists. A powerful antidote to decades of concentration on the differences among Americans. A magnificent and timely book. John McElroy picks up where de Tocqueville left off. -Charles Moskos., Why do so many different people with widely dissimilar ideas and customs get along as Americans? In American Beliefs, John McElroy identifies and explains those essential ideas that keep a big country and a diverse people united, tracing them historically from their origins in the earliest experiences of the American colonists. A powerful antidote to decades of concentration on the differences among Americans. A magnificent and timely book. John McElroy picks up where de Tocqueville left off. --Charles Moskos., Why do so many different people with widely dissimilar ideas and customs get along as Americans? In American Beliefs, John McElroy identifies and explains those essential ideas that promote the unity of a vast nation and a diversified people--because they have been shared and acted upon by generations of Americans. Tracing these beliefs historically from their origins in the earliest experiences of the American colonists, Mr. McElroy shows how they became continuing convictions that together form a pattern distinct from those of other peoples. Work, he argues, shaped the primary beliefs of Americans, for the task of the early settlers was first of all to survive in a new wilderness. He then goes on to discuss beliefs that grew from the experiences of immigrants, from life on the frontier, and from the ideas that Americans developed about religion and morality, politics, human nature, and the workings of society. It is not birthplace or skin color that makes a person an American, Mr. McElroy observes, but a common behavior based upon principles of freedom and equality, individuality and responsibility, improvement and practicality. American Beliefs is a book greatly needed, a powerful antidote to decades of historical and political writings that have concentrated on the differences among Americans., Why do so many different people with widely dissimilar ideas and customs get along as Americans? In American Beliefs, John McElroy identifies and explains those essential ideas that keep a big country and a diverse people united, tracing them historically from their origins in the earliest experiences of the American colonists. A powerful antidote to decades of concentration on the differences among Americans."A magnificent and timely book. John McElroy picks up where de Tocqueville left off."--Charles Moskos.
LC Classification Number
E169.1.M156 2000
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