American Beliefs : What Keeps a Big Country and a Diverse People United / John Harmon McElroy

McElroy, John Harmon

ISBN 10: 1566632315 / ISBN 13: 9781566632317

Edité par Chicago, Ill. : Ivan R. Dee, 1999

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Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. ; 259 pages; Description: xii, 259 p. : ill. , map ; 23 cm. Subjects: National characteristics, American --Values --United States --Cultural pluralism --Social life and customs. 1 Kg.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: American Beliefs : What Keeps a Big Country and a Diverse People United / John Harmon McElroy
• Éditeur: Chicago, Ill. : Ivan R. Dee
• Date de parution: 1999
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1566632315
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781566632317
• Reliure: Couverture rigide
• Édition: First Edition.
• État de la jaquette: Jaquette
• Poids: 1 kilogramme

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Synopsis

Tracing the origins of current American culture back to the first colonists, the author follows the long, intertwining threads of religion, politics, and human nature as they shaped a nation of people, from an initial struggle to survive in the wilderness to the unprecedented national power and affluence. IP.

Présentation de l'éditeur

Why do so many different people with widely dissimilar ideas and customs get along as Americans? In American Beliefs, John Mcelroy identifies and explains those essential ideas that keep a big country and a diverse people united, tracing them historically from their origins in the earliest experiences of the American colonists. A powerful antidote to decades of concentration on the differences among Americans. A magnificent and timely book. John Mcelroy picks up where de Tocqueville left off. Charles Moskos.