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Author : Wilbur Fisk Gordy
Release : 1907
Genre : Indiana
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Book Synopsis American Leaders and Heroes by : Wilbur Fisk Gordy
Download or read book American Leaders and Heroes written by Wilbur Fisk Gordy. This book was released on 1907. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Edmund S. Morgan
Release : 2010-05-10
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 269/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis American Heroes: Profiles of Men and Women Who Shaped Early America by : Edmund S. Morgan
Download or read book American Heroes: Profiles of Men and Women Who Shaped Early America written by Edmund S. Morgan. This book was released on 2010-05-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A wise, humane and beautifully written book." —Bret Stephens, Wall Street Journal From the best-selling author of Benjamin Franklin comes this remarkable work that will help redefine our notion of American heroism. Americans have long been obsessed with their heroes, but the men and women dramatically portrayed here are not celebrated for the typical banal reasons contained in Founding Fathers hagiography. Effortlessly challenging those who persist in revering the American history status quo and its tropes and falsehoods, Morgan, now ninety-three, continues to believe that the past is just not the way it seems.
Author : Dennis Denenberg
Release : 2016-09-01
Genre : Juvenile Nonfiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 291/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis 50 American Heroes Every Kid Should Meet (2nd Revised Edition) by : Dennis Denenberg
Download or read book 50 American Heroes Every Kid Should Meet (2nd Revised Edition) written by Dennis Denenberg. This book was released on 2016-09-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heroes come in all ages, sizes, and colors, and 50 American Heroes Every Kid Should Meet (2nd Revised Edition) introduces readers to a diverse cast of great Americans. The remarkable stories of fifty inspiring Americans are highlighted, from Jane Addams to Louis Zamperini. Revised in 2016 by the original authors to include ten new heroes, the book includes up-to-date websites and booklists. With the most current biographical information available, this edition is sure to inform and inspire readers.
Author : Wilbur Fisk Gordy
Release : 1901
Genre : Indiana
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : /5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis American Leaders and Heroes by : Wilbur Fisk Gordy
Download or read book American Leaders and Heroes written by Wilbur Fisk Gordy. This book was released on 1901. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Linas Eriksonas
Release : 2004
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis National Heroes and National Identities by : Linas Eriksonas
Download or read book National Heroes and National Identities written by Linas Eriksonas. This book was released on 2004. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates the concept of the heroic, questions what it is that makes the national hero an indispensable appendage to any possible interpretation of national identity, and asks why scholars stop short before coming to terms with this elusive phenomenon. It finds answers by following heroic traditions in Scotland, Norway and Lithuania from the early modern period to the twentieth century. The book argues that heroic traditions - prevailing trends in situating heroes in national history - owe much to the early modern state. Both national heroes and the nation state had been conceived with a similar moral political mindset that looked for new ways to identify sources for commonality. The confluence of political theory and Realpolitik attested to three classical types of polities, i.e. civitas popularis (democracy), regnum (kingship), and optimatium (aristocracy), as found at that time in Scotland, Norway and Lithuania respectively. The author shows the varied impact these patterns had on heroic traditions. The long record of national heroes in Scotland is explained as a vestige of the legacy of civic humanism, the continuing traditions of the heroic king-lines in Norway are seen as a result of long-standing absolutism, while the belated arrival of national heroes in Lithuania is excused by the country's aristocratic if at times oligarchic past.
