This patriotic addition to the successful What Is . . .? board book series introduces young children to the United States of America. In this engaging look at America, MICHELLE MEDLOCK ADAMS introduces little ones to the beliefs and ideals that make America unique. Heartfelt and humorous questions ponder all of the things that America might be about-the flag, the Fourth of July, the Statue of Liberty. Readers quickly learn that America is about more than symbols and monuments. It's a land of freedom and democracy where dreams come true. Whimsical artwork and rhyming verse will capture children's imaginations as they explore what America means to them.
With What's So Great About America, Dinesh D'Souza is not asking a question, but making a statement.
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either...
If this is the land of the free, why are there so many rules? What is American food besides hamburgers and hot dogs? How does the health care system work? How do we judge if an American is just being friend or truly being a friend?
This book provides a clear-headed and middle-way path to a better-functioning society in which personal responsibility is honored and inclusive capitalism and more broadly shared growth are once more the norm.
• A New Republic Best Book of the Year • The Globalist Top Books of the Year • Winner of the Maine Literary Award for Non-fiction • Particularly relevant in understanding who voted for who in this presidential election year, this is ...
Introduction to the concept of being an American.
In this provocative book, Mugambi Jouet describes why Americans are far more divided than other Westerners over basic issues, including wealth inequality, health care, climate change, evolution, gender roles, abortion, gay rights, sex, gun ...
17 For the Spanish, disease was a better weapon than a neutron bomb because just enough Amerindians survived to work the mines.18 The Aztec and Inca treasures were only a down payment on all the gold and silver that would flow across ...
As I was growing up as a child in a remote hamlet in South Georgia in the early 1920?s, I was always on the verge of blowing my mind, when I would try to fathom the unfathomable.
Olson, Lynne, Those Angry Days: Roosevelt, Lindbergh, and America's Fight Over World War II, 1929–1941, New York: Random House ... Procter, Ben, William Randolph Hearst: The Later Years, 1911–1951, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007.