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America, Empire of Liberty
David Reynolds
其他書名
A New History of the United States
出版
Basic Books
, 2011-07-12
主題
History / United States / General
History / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877)
History / United States / Revolutionary Period (1775-1800)
History / United States / 20th Century
History / United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775)
History / United States / 19th Century
History / United States / 21st Century
ISBN
0465022146
9780465022144
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=HczuswEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
A magisterial history of the United States by a prize-winning historian
"The best one-volume history of the United States ever written."
--Joseph J. Ellis, author of
Founding Brothers
and
The Quartet
Thomas Jefferson envisioned the United States as a great "empire of liberty." In his riveting single-volume history of the United States, award-winning historian David Reynolds takes Jefferson's phrase as a key to the American saga. He examines how the anti-empire of 1776 became the greatest superpower the world has seen--and how the country that offered liberty and opportunity on a scale unmatched in Europe nevertheless founded its prosperity on the labor of black slaves and the dispossession of Native Americans. Reynolds also reveals how these tensions between empire and liberty have often been resolved by faith--both the evangelical Protestantism that has energized US politics since the founding of the nation and the larger faith in American righteousness that has impelled the country's expansion.
Written with verve, insight, and humor,
America, Empire of Liberty
is a magisterial depiction of America in all its grandeur and contradictions.