Give me liberty : a history of America's exceptional idea
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New York, N.Y. : Basic Books, 2019.
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New York, N.Y. : Basic Books, 2019.
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ix, 292 pages ; 22 cm
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-278) and index.
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An award-winning historian recounts the history of American liberty through the stories of twelve 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 twelve 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.

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Brookhiser, R. (2019). Give me liberty: a history of America's exceptional idea (First edition). Basic Books.

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Brookhiser, Richard. 2019. Give Me Liberty: A History of America's Exceptional Idea. Basic Books.

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Brookhiser, Richard. Give Me Liberty: A History of America's Exceptional Idea Basic Books, 2019.

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Brookhiser, Richard. Give Me Liberty: A History of America's Exceptional Idea First edition, Basic Books, 2019.

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