The American Idea
The Best of the Atlantic Monthly
Edited by Robert Vare
Format: eBook, 688 pages
On Sale: December 10, 2008
Price: $17.95
“What is ‘the American idea’? It is the fractious, maddening approach to the conduct of human affairs that values equality despite its elusiveness, that values democracy despite its debasement, that values pluralism despite its messiness, that values the institutions of civic culture despite their flaws, and that values public life as...
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The American Idea
The Best of the Atlantic Monthly
Edited by Robert Vare
Format: Trade Paperback, 688 pages
On Sale: October 14, 2008
Price: $17.95
“What is ‘the American idea’? It is the fractious, maddening approach to the conduct of human affairs that values equality despite its elusiveness, that values democracy despite its debasement, that values pluralism despite its messiness, that values the institutions of civic culture despite their flaws, and that values public life as...
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I Wish I'd Been There
Written by Byron Hollinshead
Format: eBook
On Sale: September 4, 2007
Price: $14.95
Twenty distinguished American historians vividly reimagine twenty events of great drama and significance in our country’s past.
“What is the scene or incident in American history that you would like to have witnessed—and why?” This is the thought-provoking question that editor Byron Hollinshead posed to twenty of our finest interpreters of American...
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Part of Our Time
Some Ruins and Monuments of the Thirties
Written by Murray Kempton
Introduction by David Remnick
Format: Trade Paperback, 360 pages
On Sale: May 31, 2004
Price: $16.95
Through brilliant portraits of real persons who created the myths and realities of the 1930s, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Murray Kempton brings that turbulent decade to life. Himself a child of the time, Kempton examines with the insight and imagination of a novelist the men and women who embraced, grappled with...
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