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American Beliefs: What Keeps a Big Country and a Diverse People United
Author(s): John Harmon McElroy (Author)
- Publisher: Ivan R. Dee
- Publication Date: 9 Feb. 1999
- Language: English
- Print length: 288 pages
- ISBN-10: 1566632315
- ISBN-13: 9781566632317
Book Description
Why do so many different people with widely dissimilar ideas and customs get along as Americans? In American Beliefs, John McElroy identifies and explains those essential ideas that keep a big country and a diverse people united, tracing them historically from their origins in the earliest experiences of the American colonists. A powerful antidote to decades of concentration on the differences among Americans. A magnificent and timely book. John McElroy picks up where de Tocqueville left off. ―Charles Moskos.
Editorial Reviews
Review
Powerful…a persuasive analysis. — Emory Elliott, Center for Ideas and Society, University of California
John McElroy thoroughly expounds with subtlety and depth a point of capital importance. — John Silber, Boston University
Impressive. — Joseph Epstein ―
Times Literary SupplementA magnificent and timely book. — Charles Moskos, Northwestern University
An exceptionally interesting and rewarding book about what makes Americans what they are. — Jonathan Yardley ―
The Review of Higher Education
