America, Empire of Liberty
A New History
$56.61
- Paperback
704 pages
- Release Date
10 March 2010
Summary
Thomas Jefferson envisioned the United States as a great ‘empire of liberty.’ In the first new one-volume history in two decades, David Reynolds takes Jefferson’s phrase as a key to the saga of America—helping unlock both its grandeur and its paradoxes. He examines how the anti-empire of 1776 became the greatest superpower the world has seen, how the country that offered liberty and opportunity on a scale unmatched in Europe nevertheless founded its prosperity on the labor of black slaves and…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141033679 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0141033673 |
| Author: | David Reynolds |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 704 |
| Release Date: | 10 March 2010 |
| Weight: | 503g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 127mm x 30mm |
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About The Author
David Reynolds
David Reynolds is a Professor of International History at Cambridge University, and a Fellow of Christ’s College. He was awarded the Wolfson Prize for History, 2004, and elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2005. He has written and presented several history films for the BBC - among them the 2008 series Summits. His books include several on modern America and its relations with Europe. His fascination with the country dates back to a year living there as a student, culminating in an epic ten-week, 10,000 mile bus journey in the summer of 1974 which ended outside the White House on the morning Richard Nixon resigned. David has been a regular visitor to the United States ever since and has held visiting university appointments at Harvard, Nebraska and Oklahoma. America, Empire of Liberty, his book linked to the BBC Radio 4 series, was published by Penguin in 2009.
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