9781594039379-1594039372-Land of Hope: An Invitation to the Great American Story

Land of Hope: An Invitation to the Great American Story

ISBN-13: 9781594039379
ISBN-10: 1594039372
Edition: Illustrated
Author: Wilfred M. McClay
Publication date: 2019
Publisher: Encounter Books
Format: Hardcover 504 pages
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ISBN-13: 9781594039379
ISBN-10: 1594039372
Edition: Illustrated
Author: Wilfred M. McClay
Publication date: 2019
Publisher: Encounter Books
Format: Hardcover 504 pages

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Land of Hope: An Invitation to the Great American Story (ISBN-13: 9781594039379 and ISBN-10: 1594039372), written by authors Wilfred M. McClay, was published by Encounter Books in 2019. With an overall rating of 4.2 stars, it's a notable title among other United States History (Reference, Historical Study & Educational Resources, Study & Teaching, History, Encyclopedias & Subject Guides, Americas History) books. You can easily purchase or rent Land of Hope: An Invitation to the Great American Story (Hardcover) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used United States History books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $5.86.

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We have a glut of text and trade books on American history. But what we don’t have is a compact, inexpensive, authoritative, and compulsively readable book that will offer to American readers a clear, informative, and inspiring narrative account of their own country. Such an account can shape and deepen their sense of the land they inhabit and, by making them understand that land’s roots, and share in its memories, will equip them for the privileges and responsibilities of citizenship in American society. It will provide them with an enduring sense of membership in one of the greatest enterprises in human history: the exciting, perilous, and consequential story of their own country.

The existing texts simply fail to tell that story with energy and conviction. They are more likely to reflect the skeptical or partial outlook of specialized professional academic historians, an outlook that leads to a fragmented and fractured view of modern American society and fails to convey to American readers the greater arc of their own history. Or they disproportionately reflect the outlook of radical critics of American society, whose one-sided accounts lack the balance of a larger perspective and have had an enormous, and largely negative, effect upon the teaching of American history in American high schools and colleges.

This state of affairs cannot continue for long without producing serious consequences. A great nation needs and deserves a great and coherent narrative, as an expression of its own self-understanding; and it needs to be able to convey that narrative to its young effectively. It perhaps goes without saying that such a narrative cannot be a fairy tale or a whitewash of the past; it will not be convincing if it is not truthful. But there is no necessary contradiction between an honest account of the American past and an inspiring one. This account seeks to provide both.

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