Give Me Liberty by Richard Brookhiser
An award-winning historian recounts the history of American liberty through the stories of thirteen essential documents
Nationalism is inevitable: It supplies feelings of belonging, identity, and recognition. It binds us to our neighbors and tells us who we are. But increasingly -- from the United States to India, from Russia to Burma -- nationalism is being invoked for unworthy ends: to disdain minorities or to support despots. As a result, nationalism has become to many a dirty word.
In Give Me Liberty, award-winning historian and biographer Richard Brookhiser offers up a truer and more inspiring story of American nationalism as it has evolved over four hundred years. He examines America's history through thirteen documents that made the United States a new country in a new world: a free country. We are what we are because of them; we stay true to what we are by staying true to them.
Americans have always sought liberty, asked for it, fought for it; every victory has been the fulfillment of old hopes and promises. This is our nationalism, and we should be proud of it.
Richard Brookhiser is a National Review senior editor and the author of eleven books, including James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, American, and Founding Father: Rediscovering George Washington. He currently resides in New York City.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781541699137 |
| ISBN 10 | 1541699130 |
| Title | Give Me Liberty |
| Author | Richard Brookhiser |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Basic Books |
| Year published | 2019-11-05 |
| Number of pages | 304 |
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