An Experiment in Liberty

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ISBN 13 : 9781957905273
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (52 download)

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Book Synopsis An Experiment in Liberty by : George Grant

Download or read book An Experiment in Liberty written by George Grant and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "G.K. Chesterton once quipped that America is the only nation founded on a creed. This book is the story of how that happened. George Grant is not one of those historians who is obsessed with facts and dates. He is a seasoned storyteller, and in this short little book he gives the story of the American battle for independence, beginning with the background in the founding of the colonies and the French and Indian War, he chronicles the how and why of the American Revolution, down to the Constitutional convention. The American Revolution was in many ways not like a revolution at all. Rather than being a revolt against authority, it was a revolt in favor of law and the duty of the lesser magistrate to protect the people against tyranny. If you live in America, there is a great story and a great heritage for you to uncover"--

Experiment in Liberty

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ISBN 13 : 9780897452199
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (521 download)

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Book Synopsis Experiment in Liberty by : William Moore Gray

Download or read book Experiment in Liberty written by William Moore Gray and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The American Experiment

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Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 148043020X
Total Pages : 2467 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (84 download)

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Book Synopsis The American Experiment by : James MacGregor Burns

Download or read book The American Experiment written by James MacGregor Burns and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2013-05-21 with total page 2467 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Pulitzer Prize–winning author’s stunning trilogy of American history, spanning the birth of the Constitution to the final days of the Cold War. In these three volumes, Pulitzer Prize–­ and National Book Award–winner James MacGregor Burns chronicles with depth and narrative panache the most significant cultural, economic, and political events of American history. In The Vineyard of Liberty, he combines the color and texture of early American life with meticulous scholarship. Focusing on the tensions leading up to the Civil War, Burns brilliantly shows how Americans became divided over the meaning of Liberty. In The Workshop of Democracy, Burns explores more than a half-century of dramatic growth and transformation of the American landscape, through the addition of dozens of new states, the shattering tragedy of the First World War, the explosion of industry, and, in the end, the emergence of the United States as a new global power. And in The Crosswinds of Freedom, Burns offers an articulate and incisive examination of the US during its rise to become the world’s sole superpower—through the Great Depression, the Second World War, the Cold War, and the rapid pace of technological change that gave rise to the “American Century.”

Power Tends To Corrupt

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Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1609090799
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (9 download)

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Book Synopsis Power Tends To Corrupt by : Christopher Lazarski

Download or read book Power Tends To Corrupt written by Christopher Lazarski and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2012-11-15 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lord Acton (1834–1902) is often called a historian of liberty. A great historian and political thinker, he had a rare talent to reach beneath the surface and reveal the hidden springs that move the world. While endeavoring to understand the components of a truly free society, Acton attempted to see how the principles of self-determination and freedom worked in practice, from antiquity to his own time. But though he penned hundreds of papers, essays, reviews, letters and ephemera, the ultimate book of his findings and views on the history of liberty remained unwritten. Reading a book a day for years he still could not keep pace with the output of his time, and finally, dejected, he gave up. Today, Acton is mainly known for a single maxim, power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. In Power Tends to Corrupt, Christopher Lazarski presents the first in-depth consideration of Acton's thought in more than fifty years. Lazarski brings Acton's work to light in accessible language, with a focus on his understanding of liberty and its development in Western history. A work akin to Acton's overall account of the history of liberty, with a secondary look at his political theory, this book is an outstanding exegesis of the theories and findings of one of the nineteenth century's keenest minds.

Empire of Liberty

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Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199738335
Total Pages : 801 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)

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Book Synopsis Empire of Liberty by : Gordon S. Wood

Download or read book Empire of Liberty written by Gordon S. Wood and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009-10-28 with total page 801 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford History of the United States is by far the most respected multi-volume history of our nation. The series includes three Pulitzer Prize winners, two New York Times bestsellers, and winners of the Bancroft and Parkman Prizes. Now, in the newest volume in the series, one of America's most esteemed historians, Gordon S. Wood, offers a brilliant account of the early American Republic, ranging from 1789 and the beginning of the national government to the end of the War of 1812. As Wood reveals, the period was marked by tumultuous change in all aspects of American life--in politics, society, economy, and culture. The men who founded the new government had high hopes for the future, but few of their hopes and dreams worked out quite as they expected. They hated political parties but parties nonetheless emerged. Some wanted the United States to become a great fiscal-military state like those of Britain and France; others wanted the country to remain a rural agricultural state very different from the European states. Instead, by 1815 the United States became something neither group anticipated. Many leaders expected American culture to flourish and surpass that of Europe; instead it became popularized and vulgarized. The leaders also hope to see the end of slavery; instead, despite the release of many slaves and the end of slavery in the North, slavery was stronger in 1815 than it had been in 1789. Many wanted to avoid entanglements with Europe, but instead the country became involved in Europe's wars and ended up waging another war with the former mother country. Still, with a new generation emerging by 1815, most Americans were confident and optimistic about the future of their country. Named a New York Times Notable Book, Empire of Liberty offers a marvelous account of this pivotal era when America took its first unsteady steps as a new and rapidly expanding nation.

The American Experiment

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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1982165804
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (821 download)

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Book Synopsis The American Experiment by : David M. Rubenstein

Download or read book The American Experiment written by David M. Rubenstein and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-09-07 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES AND WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER The capstone book in a trilogy from the New York Times bestselling author of How to Lead and The American Story and host of Bloomberg TV’s The David Rubenstein Show—American icons and historians on the ever-evolving American experiment, featuring Ken Burns, Madeleine Albright, Wynton Marsalis, Billie Jean King, Henry Louis Gates Jr., and many more. In this lively collection of conversations—the third in a series from David Rubenstein—some of our nations’ greatest minds explore the inspiring story of America as a grand experiment in democracy, culture, innovation, and ideas. -Jill Lepore on the promise of America -Madeleine Albright on the American immigrant -Ken Burns on war -Henry Louis Gates Jr. on reconstruction -Elaine Weiss on suffrage -John Meacham on civil rights -Walter Isaacson on innovation -David McCullough on the Wright Brothers -John Barry on pandemics and public health -Wynton Marsalis on music -Billie Jean King on sports -Rita Moreno on film Exploring the diverse make-up of our country’s DNA through interviews with Pulitzer Prize–winning historians, diplomats, music legends, and sports giants, The American Experiment captures the dynamic arc of a young country reinventing itself in real-time. Through these enlightening conversations, the American spirit comes alive, revealing the setbacks, suffering, invention, ingenuity, and social movements that continue to shape our vision of what America is—and what it can be.

Experiment in Liberty

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (931 download)

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Book Synopsis Experiment in Liberty by : William Moore Gray

Download or read book Experiment in Liberty written by William Moore Gray and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Last Call for Liberty

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Publisher : InterVarsity Press
ISBN 13 : 0830873376
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (38 download)

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Book Synopsis Last Call for Liberty by : Os Guinness

Download or read book Last Call for Liberty written by Os Guinness and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2018-10-02 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The American republic is suffering its gravest crisis since the Civil War. Will conflicts, hostility, and incivility tear the country apart? Os Guinness provides a careful observation of the American experiment, offering a stirring vision for faithful citizenship and renewed responsibility for not only the nation but also the watching world.

Liberty and Power

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Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0809065479
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (9 download)

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Book Synopsis Liberty and Power by : Harry L. Watson

Download or read book Liberty and Power written by Harry L. Watson and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2006-05-02 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As an engaging and persuasive survey of American public life from 1816 to 1848, this work remains a landmark achievement. Now updated to address twenty-five years of new scholarship, the book interprets the exciting political landscape that was the age of Jackson, a time that saw the rise of strong political parties and an increased popular involvement in national politics. In this work, the author examines the tension between liberty and power that both characterized the period and formed part of its historical legacy.

The American Experiment

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Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Book Synopsis The American Experiment by : Peter Augustine Lawler

Download or read book The American Experiment written by Peter Augustine Lawler and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 1994 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The editors of The American Experiment have assembled 29 lectures from outstanding teachers of American politics to offer a comprehensive overview of American government. This book can be used in place of a main or supplemental text in introductory courses as well as a layperson's guide to American government.

Religion and the American Constitutional Experiment

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Publisher : Westview Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813344751
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (447 download)

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Book Synopsis Religion and the American Constitutional Experiment by : John Witte, Jr.

Download or read book Religion and the American Constitutional Experiment written by John Witte, Jr. and published by Westview Press. This book was released on 2010-07-27 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The third edition of this classic book provides a comprehensive, multidisciplinary overview of the history, theory, law, and comparative analysis of American religious liberty from the earliest colonial period through the most recent Supreme Court cases. The authors present balanced, accessible discussions of controversial issues, such as funding religious schools and charities and displaying religious symbols on government property. Three chapters new to this edition cover the free exercise of religion, religion and public life, and religious organizations and the law. In addition, an expanded concluding chapter places the American experience in global context by comparing contemporary American religious liberty law with international human rights standards.

BLM

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Publisher : Encounter Books
ISBN 13 : 1641772247
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (417 download)

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Book Synopsis BLM by : Mike Gonzalez

Download or read book BLM written by Mike Gonzalez and published by Encounter Books. This book was released on 2021-09-07 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The George Floyd riots that have precipitated great changes throughout American society were not spontaneous events. Americans did not suddenly rise up in righteous anger, take to the streets, and demand not just that police departments be defunded but that all the structures, institutions, and systems of the United States—all supposedly racist—be overhauled. The 12,000 or so demonstrations and 633 related riots that followed Floyd’s death took organizational muscle. The movement’s grip on institutions from the classroom to the ballpark required ideological commitment. That muscle and commitment were provided by the various Black Lives Matter organizations. This book examines who the BLM leaders are, delving into their backgrounds and exposing their agendas—something the media has so far refused to do. These people are shown to be avowed Marxists who say they want to dismantle our way of life. Along with their fellow activists, they make savvy use of social media to spread their message and organize marches, sit-ins, statue tumblings, and riots. In 2020 they seized upon the video showing George Floyd’s suffering as a pretext to unleash a nationwide insurgency. Certainly, no person of good will could object to the proposition that “black lives matter” as much as any other human life. But Americans need to understand how their laudable moral concern is being exploited for purposes that a great many of them would not approve.

Market for Liberty

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Publisher : Ludwig von Mises Institute
ISBN 13 : 1610163958
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (11 download)

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Book Synopsis Market for Liberty by : Linda Tannehill

Download or read book Market for Liberty written by Linda Tannehill and published by Ludwig von Mises Institute. This book was released on 1970 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The American Experiment and the Idea of Democracy in British Culture, 1776–1914

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Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1409473120
Total Pages : 411 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (94 download)

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Book Synopsis The American Experiment and the Idea of Democracy in British Culture, 1776–1914 by : Dr Ella Dzelzainis

Download or read book The American Experiment and the Idea of Democracy in British Culture, 1776–1914 written by Dr Ella Dzelzainis and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-11-28 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In nineteenth-century Britain, the effects of democracy in America were seen to spread from Congress all the way down to the personal habits of its citizens. Bringing together political theorists, historians, and literary scholars, this volume explores the idea of American democracy in nineteenth-century Britain. The essays span the period from Independence to the First World War and trace an intellectual history of Anglo-American relations during that period. Leading scholars trace the hopes and fears inspired by the American model of democracy in the works of commentators, including Thomas Paine, Mary Wollstonecraft, Alexis de Tocqueville, Charles Dickens, John Stuart Mill, Richard Cobden, Charles Dilke, Matthew Arnold, Henry James and W. T. Stead. By examining the context of debates about American democracy and notions of ‘culture’, citizenship, and race, the collection sheds fresh light on well-documented moments of British political history, such as the Reform Acts, the Abolition of Slavery Act, and the Anti-Corn Law agitation. The volume also explores the ways in which British Liberalism was shaped by the American example and draws attention to the importance of print culture in furthering radical political dialogue between the two nations. As the comprehensive introduction makes clear, this collection makes an important contribution to transatlantic studies and our growing sense of a nineteenth-century modernity shaped by an Atlantic exchange. It is an essential reference point for all interested in the history of the idea of democracy, its political evolution, and its perceived cultural consequences.

Liberty and the News

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Total Pages : 120 pages
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Book Synopsis Liberty and the News by : Walter Lippmann

Download or read book Liberty and the News written by Walter Lippmann and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Power and Liberty

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Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197546935
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (975 download)

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Book Synopsis Power and Liberty by : Gordon S. Wood

Download or read book Power and Liberty written by Gordon S. Wood and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-08-02 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times bestseller and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Gordon S. Wood elucidates the debates over the founding documents of the United States. The half century extending from the imperial crisis between Britain and its colonies in the 1760s to the early decades of the new republic of the United States was the greatest and most creative era of constitutionalism in American history, and perhaps in the world. During these decades, Americans explored and debated all aspects of politics and constitutionalism--the nature of power, liberty, representation, rights, the division of authority between different spheres of government, sovereignty, judicial authority, and written constitutions. The results of these issues produced institutions that have lasted for over two centuries. In this new book, eminent historian Gordon S. Wood distills a lifetime of work on constitutional innovations during the Revolutionary era. In concise form, he illuminates critical events in the nation's founding, ranging from the imperial debate that led to the Declaration of Independence to the revolutionary state constitution making in 1776 and the creation of the Federal Constitution in 1787. Among other topics, he discusses slavery and constitutionalism, the emergence of the judiciary as one of the major tripartite institutions of government, the demarcation between public and private, and the formation of states' rights. Here is an immensely readable synthesis of the key era in the making of the history of the United States, presenting timely insights on the Constitution and the nation's foundational legal and political documents.

If You Can Keep It

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Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101980001
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)

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Book Synopsis If You Can Keep It by : Eric Metaxas

Download or read book If You Can Keep It written by Eric Metaxas and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-06-14 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 New York Times bestselling author Eric Metaxas delivers an extraordinary book that is part history and part rousing call to arms, steeped in a critical analysis of our founding fathers' original intentions for America. In 1787, when the Constitution was drafted, a woman asked Ben Franklin what the founders had given the American people. "A republic," he shot back, "if you can keep it." More than two centuries later, Metaxas examines what that means and how we are doing on that score. If You Can Keep It is at once a thrilling review of America's uniqueness—including our role as a "nation of nations"—and a chilling reminder that America's greatness cannot continue unless we embrace our own crucial role in living out what the founders entrusted to us. Metaxas explains that America is not a nation bounded by ethnic identity or geography, but rather by a radical and unprecedented idea, based on liberty and freedom for all. He cautions us that it's nearly past time we reconnect to that idea, or we may lose the very foundation of what made us exceptional in the first place.