' In the first new one-volume history in two decades, David Reynolds takes Jefferson's phrase as a key to the saga of America - helping unlock both its grandeur and its paradoxes.
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This is also a book in which the voices of the past speak out strongly for themselves.Not just presidents from Washington to Bush, but ordinary men and women – settlers and Indians, slaves and immigrants, factory workers and farmers, ...
This new, personal interpretation of American history - on the themes of Empire, Liberty and Faith - is David Reynolds' definitive work on the subject. The story begins in the...
Explores America's paradoxical role as an "empire of liberty" that was established on anti-empire sentiments in spite of controversial and oppressive practices, in a report that discusses the historic capability of faith to resolve ...