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Land of Hope : An Invitation to the Great American Story by Wilfred M. McClay (2020, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherEncounter Books

ISBN-101641771399

ISBN-139781641771399

eBay Product ID (ePID)20038589185

Product Key Features

Educational LevelHigh School, Elementary School

Number of Pages504 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameLand of Hope : an Invitation to the Great American Story

SubjectRéférence, Study & Teaching, North America

Publication Year2020

TypeStudy Guide

AuthorWilfred M. Mcclay

Subject AreaHistory

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Weight0 Oz

Item Length10 in

Item Width7.5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceElementary/High School

Grade FromNinth Grade

Grade ToCollege Senior

Edition DescriptionCombined Volume

SynopsisA wonderfully written, sweeping narrative history of the United States that will help Americans discover the land they call home High School and College Age Students The Original Land of Hope Narrative in Paperback Edition We have a glut of text and trade books on American history. But what we don't have is a compact, inexpensive, authoritative, and compulsively readable book that will offer to intelligent young Americans a coherent, persuasive, and inspiring narrative of their own country. Such an account will shape and deepen their sense of the land they inhabit, and by making them understand that land's roots, will equip them for the privileges and responsibilities of citizenship in American society, and provide them with a vivid and enduring sense of membership in one of the greatest enterprises in human history: the exciting, perilous, and immensely consequential story of their own country. The existing texts simply fail to tell that story with energy and conviction. They are more likely to reflect the skeptical outlook of specialized professional academic historians, an outlook that supports a fragmented and fractured view of modern American society, and that fails to convey to young people the greater arc of that history. Or they reflect the outlook of radical critics of American society, who seek to debunk the standard American narrative, and has an enormous, and largely negative, effect upon the teaching of American history in American high schools and colleges. This state of affairs cannot continue for long without producing serious consequences. A great nation needs and deserves a great and coherent narrative, as an expression of its own self-understanding: and it needs to convey that narrative to its young effectively. It perhaps goes without saying that such a narrative cannot be a fairy tale or a whitewash of the past; it will not be convincing if it is not truthful. But there is no necessary contradiction between an honest account and an inspiring one. This account seeks to provide both.