Land of Hope Young Reader's Edition - McClay, Wilfred M.
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"We have a great many historical books today designed for young readers--books about particular aspects of the American past, representing every ethnic and racial group and every religious and social persuasion. But what we have been lacking is a charming and compelling book that can stand at the center of it all, and acquaint our young people with the larger story of which their story is a part. The great American story. The runaway success of Wilfred McClay's 2019 book LAND OF HOPE has provided a model of has been needed for so long; and it's in the spirit of that work that Encounter Books…mehr

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"We have a great many historical books today designed for young readers--books about particular aspects of the American past, representing every ethnic and racial group and every religious and social persuasion. But what we have been lacking is a charming and compelling book that can stand at the center of it all, and acquaint our young people with the larger story of which their story is a part. The great American story. The runaway success of Wilfred McClay's 2019 book LAND OF HOPE has provided a model of has been needed for so long; and it's in the spirit of that work that Encounter Books will publish this special edition, with language and contents designed especially with younger readers in mind. The great themes of the nation's history will all presented resoundingly: the search for religious liberty, the heroic battles of the American Revolution, the great controversies of the Constitutional Convention, the exhilaration of national expansion, the traumas of civil war and reconciliation, the rise to world leadership. But the great themes will also be accompanied by smaller themes: what it felt like to live in a colonial village, or a midwestern pioneering town, or as a cowboy on the range. Like its namesake and predecessor, the Young Reader's edition of LAND OF HOPE is a great invitation, one that will tantalize its readers and leaving them hungry to learn more"--
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Wilfred M. McClay is the G. T. and Libby Blankenship Chair in the History of Liberty at the University of Oklahoma and the Director of the Center for the History of Liberty. His book The Masterless: Self and Society in Modern America was awarded the 1995 Merle Curti Award of the Organization of American Historians for the best book in American intellectual history. Among his other books are A Student's Guide to U.S. History, Religion Returns to the Public Square: Faith and Policy in America, Figures in the Carpet: Finding the Human Person in the American Past, and Why Place Matters: Geography, Identity, and Civic Life in Modern America. He was appointed in 2002 to membership on the National Council on the Humanities, the advisory board for the National Endowment for the Humanities, and served in that capacity for eleven years. He is a member of the U.S. Semiquincentennial Commission, which is planning events for the nation's 250th anniversary in 2026. He has been the recipient of fellowships from the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the National Academy of Education. He is a graduate of St. John's College (Annapolis) and received his PhD in History from the Johns Hopkins University.