Don't Play Away Your Cards, Uncle Sam: The American DifferenceHannah Arendt wrote that America was the greatest adventure of European man. Times have changed and stale anti-American sentiment flowing west from the European continent has replaced the flood of Europeans crossing the Atlantic in search of the American Dream. In Olof Murelius, one encounters a European observer who grasps what so many Europeans now miss, the adventure that is still America. Don't Play Away Your Cards, Uncle Sam is a spirited account of the growth of a nation. Murelius's work cuts a broad swathe through American history from the Founding Fathers to Bill Clinton, accentuating America's many and varied accomplishments. It is a gloriously unapologetic battle cry to America to cast off any lingering national self-doubt and will delight readers seeking a conversation with the best of Old Europe about the American "way of life." |
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Contents
Introduction | 1 |
At the Beginning | 3 |
Birth of the Nation | 21 |
Forging an Identity | 43 |
Gathering Storm Clouds | 73 |
Facing the Enemy | 89 |
A New Washington | 105 |
The Beginning of the End? | 115 |
The End of the Beginning | 127 |
The Viable Adventure | 143 |
Appendix | 147 |
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About the Author and Editor | |
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| Title | Don't Play Away Your Cards, Uncle Sam: The American Difference Religion, politics, and society in the new millennium |
| Author | Olof Murelius |
| Editor | Jana Novak |
| Contributor | Michael Novak |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Lexington Books, 2002 |
| ISBN | 0739103148, 9780739103142 |
| Length | 169 pages |
| Subjects | › › History / United States / General Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social |
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