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Gems of American History
The American story is one of great physical, intellectual, and spiritual adventure. Gems of American History explores how this extraordinary republic came to be—and what is required to preserve its legacy of liberty. In this collection of twelve essays, the renowned historian Walter McDougall examines some of the most pivotal events and figures of the American saga to date. He revisits the “Machiavellian moment” that ignited the awakening of republican thought across the Atlantic. He reflects on the forging of America’s civic identity from its earliest seeds in the colonial era. His profiles of William Penn, Benjamin Franklin, and the philanthropist and tycoon Stephen Girard reveal...
Freedom Just Around the Corner
"This unusual book . . . may have a major impact on how we Americans understand ourselves. . . . Fast paced and full of shrewd judgements." —Gordon S. Wood, New York Times Book Review, front page This powerful reinterpretation of United States history is remarkable not only for its scholarship and historical breadth, but also in its assertion that the success of the country depends in a large part on the unique American character, which has shaped so many historic events. In the first of a projected three-volume series, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Walter A. McDougall argues that the creation of the United States is the central event in the last four hundred years of world history . Fre...
Freedom Just Around the Corner
This new history of the United States is based on a global interpretation by a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian. 7 maps.
Critical Issues in the History of Spaceflight
In March 2005, the NASA History Division and the Division of Space History at the National Air and Space Museum brought together a distinguished group of scholars to consider the state of the discipline of space history. This volume is a collection of essays based on those deliberations. The meeting took place at a time of extraordinary transformation for NASA, stemming from the new Vision of Space Exploration announced by President George W. Bush in January 204: to go to the Moon, Mars, and beyond. This Vision, in turn, stemmed from a deep reevaluation of NASA?s goals in the wake of the Space Shuttle Columbia accident and the recommendations of the Columbia Accident Investigation Board. The new goals were seen as initiating a "New Age of Exploration" and were placed in the context of the importance of exploration and discovery to the American experiences. (Amazon).
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The Tragedy of U.S. Foreign Policy
25. Impossible Dreams -- 26. Age of Aquarius -- 27. A Purgatory in Time -- 28. The Power of Words -- OBAMA'S WORLD? THE GLOBAL CIVIL RELIGION ABORTS -- Bibliographical Essay -- Acknowledgments -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z
The Mighty Continent
In The Mighty Continent, the renowned Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Walter A. McDougall recounts the truly dramatic tale of modern Europe's ascent. McDougall serves this history straight up, free of shame, apology, and the cloying moralism so characteristic of today's supposed scholarship. The result is a work that is not only expertly presented but thrilling. McDougall's sweeping narrative takes in the domestic political, economic, social, intellectual, and cultural developments in the major European nations from the fifteenth to the twenty-first century. Along the way, he provides new insights on and interpretations of the Renaissance, the Protestant and Catholic Reformations, the Age of Exploration, the Scientific, French, and Industrial Revolutions, the sources of modernism, the origins of World War I, the rise of totalitarianism, the advance of the European Union, the collapse of communism, and much else. Comprehensive yet compact, objective yet unabashed, The Mighty Continent is history as it used to be: exciting, uplifting, ironic, not infrequently tragic--and above all, fair to the figures who made modern Europe so world-shakingly powerful and inescapably influential.
