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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Roosevelt, Kermit (1971-....)
Titre(s) : The nation that never was [Texte imprimé] : reconstructing America's story / Kermit Roosevelt III
Publication : Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2022
Description matérielle : 250 pages ; 24 cm
Note(s) : Notes bibliogr.
"One standard story about America is rooted in the Declaration of Independence and
the Constitution. Another story concerns America's moment of reckoning after the Civil
War, when it was possible to believe that the country would transcend its racist roots.
Kermit Roosevelt III argues here that today, with the country increasingly riven along
violent divides, we can find a path forward by shifting our benchmarks from the first
story, which fostered the Confederacy, to the second. America doesn't need to find
a new usable past; it already has one: we don't live in the Founders' America-we live
in Lincoln's"
Sujet(s) : États-Unis. Declaration of Independence (1776)
Histoire constitutionnelle -- États-Unis
Esclavage -- États-Unis
Égalité -- États-Unis
Indice(s) Dewey : 342.730 29 (23e éd.) = Histoire constitutionnelle - Etats-Unis
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780226829517 (br.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb47449732p
Notice n° :
FRBNF47449732
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Stories of America ; Questioning the standard story : dissenters ; The exclusive Declaration ; The ambiguous Revolution ; The geostrategic Constitution ; The story of continuity ; The march of the Declaration ; Why we tell the standard story ; Why we shouldn't tell the standard story ; Magic tricks and revolutions ; Why, how, and who we are ; Redemption songs : inclusive equality and exclusive individualism in modern America ; The better story.