Freedom Just Around the Corner: A New American History: 1585-1828Harper Collins, 2004 M03 30 - 638 páginas A powerful reinterpretation of the founding of America, by a Pulitzer Prize -- winning historian "The creation of the United States of America is the central event of the past four hundred years," declares Walter McDougall in his preface to Freedom Just Around the Corner. With this statement begins McDougall's most ambitious, original, and uncompromising of histories. McDougall marshals the latest scholarship and writes in a style redolent of passion, pathos, and humor in pursuit of truths often obscured in books burdened with political slants. From the origins of English expansion under Henry VIII to the founding of the United States to the rollicking election of President Andrew Jackson, McDougall rescues from myth or oblivion the brave, brilliant, and flawed people who made America great: women and men, native-born and immigrant; German, Latin, African, and British; as well as farmers, engineers, planters, merchants; Protestants, Freemasons, Catholics, and Jews; and -- last but not least -- the American scofflaws, speculators, rogues, and demagogues. With an insightful approach to the nearly 250 years spanning America's beginnings, McDougall offers his readers an understanding of the uniqueness of the "American character" and how it has shaped the wide-ranging course of historical events. McDougall explains that Americans have always been in a unique position of enjoying "more opportunity to pursue their ambitions...than any other people in history." Throughout Freedom Just Around the Corner the character of the American people shines, a character built out of a freedom to indulge in the whole panoply of human behavior. The genius behind the success of the United States is founded on the complex, irrepressible American spirit. A grand narrative rich with new details and insights about colonial and early national history, Freedom Just Around the Corner is the first installment of a trilogy that will eventually bring the story of America up to the present day -- story as epic, bemusing, and brooding as Bob Dylan's "Jokerman," the ballad that inspires its titles. |
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... religion — Americans preferred not to acknowledge . In the opening scene the Con - Man is that silent prophet dressed in white and quoting St. Paul . In the next he impersonates a crippled Negro beggar , worse off in freedom than he was ...
... religious upheaval that prevailed elsewhere in Western Europe during the smash- up of medieval Christendom . In other respects English development contrasted sharply with that of France , Spain , or the Holy Roman Empire . Those special ...
... religious doctrines and prejudices . The king might have been interested only in siring a dynasty , and his collaborators only in high office and wealth . But they recognized the need to drape their murders ( judicial or otherwise ) and ...
... religion in their own realms (cuius regio eius religio). But the blood of Mary's victims, sanctified for generations ... religious wars by persuading Henri de Bourbon to display a genial indifference toward Catholics and Calvinists alike ...
... Religion proved only marginally more successful than Cranmer's . First , Scotland was scorched by the fiery Presbyterian preacher John Knox , forcing the Catholic Mary Stuart , Queen of Scots , to seek refuge with her cousin Elizabeth ...
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BARBADIANS YORKERS AND QUAKERS | 71 |
PAPISTS WITCHES SCOFFLAWS AND PREACHERS | 99 |
GERMANS FOUR SORTS OF BRITONS AND AFRICANS | 136 |
SOLDIERS SPECULATORS AND SAVAGES | 168 |
SONS OF LIBERTY AND TwoBOTTLE TYRANTS | 202 |
PATRIOTS TORIES SLACKERS AND SPIES | 239 |
RELUCTANT NATIONALISTS EAGER IMPERIALISTS | 371 |
ENGINEERS PIONEERS PEDDLERS AND DEMOCRATS | 422 |
TRAVELERS | 498 |
Notes | 515 |
PHYSIOGRAPHIC MAP OF THE UNITED STATES 41 | 527 |
NORTH AMERICA EAST OF THE MISSISSIPPI IN 1763 199 | 557 |
THE SIEGE OF YORKTOWN 275 | 580 |
RATIFYING THE FEDERAL CONSTITUTION 309 | 587 |
FEDERALISTS ANTIS VESTALS AND VICTIMS | 280 |
MASTER BUILDERS PARTY MEN AND A ROGUE | 321 |
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