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Author
Lexile measure
1020L
Language
English
Description
"From one of America's most inspiring political leaders, a book about the core truths that unite us, and the long struggle to discern what those truths are and how best to act upon them, in her own life and across the life of our country. By reckoning with the big challenges we face together, drawing on the hard-won wisdom and insight from her own career and the work of those who have most inspired her, Kamala Harris offers in The Truths We Hold a...
Author
Publisher
SelectBooks, Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxiv, 331 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Author seeks to heal America's political divisions and threats to democratic values; he advocates piecing together fragments of our history--including the influence on our founding fathers of Native American beliefs in natural rights, egalitarian justice, and mankind's deep connection to nature, thus revealing a sacred purpose: to bring all peoples and the living natural world together. Native Americans influenced what Parry sees as the sacred purpose...
Author
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xix, 233 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A thought-provoking new book from one of America's finest historians
"History," wrote James Baldwin, "does not refer merely, or even principally, to the past. On the contrary, the great force of history comes from the fact that we carry it within us, are unconsciously controlled by it in many ways, and history is literally present in all that we do."
Rarely has Baldwin's insight been more forcefully confirmed than during the past few decades. History...
Author
Pub. Date
1986
Physical Desc
xiii, 498 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., first revealed the sequences that governed American politics over the past two centuries in The Cycles of American History. Faced with a new century, a new millennium, and social and technological revolutions, Schlesinger confronts the possibility of a revolution in American political cycles.
Author
Publisher
Threshold Editions
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First Threshold Editions hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
vii, 259 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"In Rediscovering Americanism, Mark R. Levin revisits the founders warnings about the perils of overreach by the federal government and concludes that the men who created our country would be outraged and disappointed to see where we've ended up. Levin returns to the impassioned question he's explored in each of his bestselling books: How do we save our exceptional country? Because our values are in such a precarious state, he argues that a restoration...
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xiii, 184 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"At the Edge of the Precipice" is historian Robert V. Remini's fascinating recounting of the Compromise of 1850, a titanic act of political will that only a skillful statesman like Clay could broker. Although the Compromise would collapse ten years later, plunging the nation into civil war, Clay's victory in 1850 ultimately saved the Union by giving the North an extra decade to industrialize and prepare.
Author
Publisher
Threshold Editions
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First Threshold editions hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
ix, 214 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Vivek Ramaswamy is not a politician. He is a first generation American, the founder of several successful companies, and an author. Ramaswamy decided he needed to step in the arena to stop the lies and tell the American people the truth. That's why he ran for president and became a leading voice in the America First movement. Ramaswamy shows exactly how honesty about the most important issues will get our country back on track. The America First movement...
11) American creed
Pub. Date
2018
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (56 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David M. Kennedy and former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice come together from different points of view to explore what it means to be American. That spirited inquiry frames the stories of a range of citizen-activists striving to realize their own visions of America's promise across deep divides.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
vii, 355 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The Declaration of Independence identified "the pursuit of happiness" as one of our unalienable rights, along with life and liberty. Jeffrey Rosen, the president of the National Constitution Center, profiles six of the most influential founders--Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and Alexander Hamilton--to show what pursuing happiness meant in their lives. By reading the classical Greek and Roman moral...
14) Common sense
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1982
Lexile measure
1260L
Physical Desc
128 pages : facsimile ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Common Sense is a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine in 1775—76 advocating independence from Great Britain to people in the Thirteen Colonies. Written in clear and persuasive prose, Paine marshaled moral and political arguments to encourage common people in the Colonies to fight for egalitarian government. It was published anonymously on January 10, 1776, at the beginning of the American Revolution, and became an immediate sensation.
It was sold...
Author
Publisher
Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
xii, 417 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The author of American Nations returns to the historical study of a fractured America by examining how a myth of national unity was created and fought over in the nineteenth century--a myth that continues to affect us today. Union tells the story of how the myth of our national origins, identity, and purpose was intentionally created in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. A small group of individuals--historians, political leaders, and...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 486 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
From journalist and historian Richard Kreitner, a "powerful revisionist account" of the most persistent idea in American history: these supposedly United States should be broken up (Eric Foner). The novel and fiery thesis of Break It Up is simple: the United States has never lived up to its name -- and never will. The disunionist impulse may have found its greatest expression in the Civil War, but as Break It Up shows, the seduction of secession wasn't...