A Visionary Nation - Four Centuries of American Dreams and What Lies Ahead

Informationen zum Autor Zachary Karabell is the author of The Last Campaign: How Truman Won the 1948 Election. He received his Ph.D. in American history from Harvard University and has taught at Harvard, the University of Massachusetts at Boston, and Dartmouth College. His essays and reviews have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, the New York Times, and on salon.com. He lives in New York City. Klappentext In this penetrating volume, Zachary Karabell examines the continuous thread that runs through the tapestry of the American experience -- the belief that we can create a perfect society -- and envisions what the next great era will be. Just as the Puritan vision of a city on a hill was supplanted by the Founding Fathers' vision of individuality, just as the expansive vision of a government-led Great Society was eclipsed by the New Economy of the 1990s, so too is the New Economy being replaced by what Karabell contends will be a period when community and spirituality occupy center stage. Zusammenfassung In this penetrating volume! Zachary Karabell examines the continuous thread that runs through the tapestry of the American experience -- the belief that we can create a perfect society -- and envisions what the next great era will be. Just as the Puritan vision of a city on a hill was supplanted by the Founding Fathers' vision of individuality! just as the expansive vision of a government-led Great Society was eclipsed by the New Economy of the 1990s! so too is the New Economy being replaced by what Karabell contends will be a period when community and spirituality occupy center stage.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Zachary Karabell
• Verlag: Harper Perennial USA
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 18.06.2002
• EAN: 9780060084424
• ISBN: 978-0-06-008442-4
• Seiten: 256
• Abmessung: 135 mm x 203 mm x 15 mm
• Themen: Sachbuch > Geschichte > Sonstiges; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Politikwissenschaft > Politische Wissenschaft und Politische Bildung; Globalization, Economics, Economic history, International business, social and political philosophy, Political Economy, Politics and government, Political science and theory, Regional, state and other local government, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS: General, HISTORY: AMERICAN, POLITICAL SCIENCE: General, HISTORY: United States / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE: World / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS: Economics / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS: Government & Business, SOCIOLOGY: AMERICAN, POLITICAL SCIENCE: Political Economy, History / American, Sociology / American