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001 2009017831
003 DLC
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008 090428s2009 nyub b 001 0 eng
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020 $a9780465015009 (alk. paper)
020 $a046501500X (alk. paper)
035 $a(OCoLC)ocn209637381
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050 00 $aE178$b.R469 2009
082 00 $a973$222
100 1 $aReynolds, David,$d1952-
245 10 $aAmerica, empire of liberty :$ba new history of the United States /$cDavid Reynolds.
260 $aNew York :$bBasic Books,$cc2009.
300 $axvii, 563 p. :$bmaps ;$c25 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 $aIt was Thomas Jefferson who envisioned the United States as a great "empire of liberty." This paradoxical phrase may be the key to the American saga: How could the anti-empire of 1776 become the world's greatest superpower? And how did the country that offered unmatched liberty nevertheless found its prosperity on slavery and the dispossession of Native Americans? In this new single-volume history spanning the entire course of US history--from 1776 through the election of Barack Obama--historian David Reynolds explains how tensions between empire and liberty have often been resolved by faith--both the evangelical Protestantism that has energized American politics for centuries and the larger faith in American righteousness that has driven the country's expansion.--From publisher description.
505 0 $aNatives and Europeans -- Empire and liberties -- Independence and republicanism -- Liberty and security -- East and West -- Slave or free? -- North and South -- White and Black -- Capital and labor -- Reform and expansion -- War and peace -- From boom to bomb -- Red or dead? -- Rights and riots -- The impotence of omnipotence -- Détente and discontent -- Revolution and democracy -- Pride and prejudice.
651 0 $aUnited States$xHistory.