American Revelation: Ten Ideals That Shaped Our Country from the Puritans to the Cold War

Tells the story of how the Amer. spirit developed over four cent., through an exam. of ideals through the personalities who set the course. Includes: ¿City on a Hill¿ sermon by John Winthrop, leader of the Mass. Bay Colony; ¿Common Sense,¿ by Thomas Paine, the most influential tract of Colonial times; the genesis of our nat. motto, ¿e pluribus unum¿; ¿Self-Reliance,¿ by Ralph Waldo Emerson; Manifest Destiny, theme for 19th-cent. territorial expansion; Henry George¿s & tax reform, ¿Progress & Poverty¿; the guiding saint of the Amer. settlement house movement, Jane Addams; ¿The Melting-Pot,¿ symbol of immigrant hope by Israel Zangwill; Carter Woodson, author of ¿The Negro in Our History,¿; & George Marshall¿s ¿European Recovery Plan¿ after WW2.Neil Baldwin is the author of 'American Revelation: Ten Ideals That Shaped Our Country from the Puritans to the Cold War', published 1905 under ISBN 9781422390993 and ISBN 1422390993.