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What Is America?: A Short History of the New World Order

By Ronald Wright

Book information

Year
2008
ISBN
0786720972, 9780786720972, 9780786726066
Open Library ID
OL11087143M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
806 kB (825002 bytes)
Pages
384\380
Topic
History
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

In the six years since 9/11, as the bush regime has squandered domestic solidarity and international goodwill, many of the archetypes and ideals with which we’ve traditionally framed the American enterprise now seem endangered, even hollow. This raises the question, has America ever been what it thinks it is? What Is America? goes to the heart of that inquiry. Ranging with dazzling expertise through anthropology, history, and literature, Wright reconfigures our self-perception, arguing that the “essence” of America can be traced to the foundations of our history-literally to the collision of worlds that began in 1492, as one civilization subsumed another-and exploring how these currents continue to shape our world.

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