The Promise of America

Résumé du livre

"The Promise of America. What does it mean to be an American, and what should it mean? What men set America's patterns, and how have we maintained their visions of our national destiny? Can we restore and preserve those ancient truths which assured us of an ultimate morality in our national life and in the world of nations? Such are the questions dealt with in this eloquent book. John Morton Blum, who is Chairman of the Department of History at Yale University, has had much experience interpreting our country both to native non-historians and to students in foreign countries. In this study he examines, out of the whole of our past, those ideas and developments that best seem to reflect the continuing performance of the American people. His interpretation of American history is a hopeful one. His inquiry "intends to obscure no blemishes, but it does endeavor to rejoice, to describe those patterns that disclose even for the Impatient, perhaps especially for them - the nobility and the power, the mission and the magnificence of the United States."--Publisher.