Wilfred M. McClay

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Tennessee

An Invitation to the Great American Story (Young Readers Edition, Volume 2)

"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"--

Land of Hope Young Reader's Edition

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An Invitation to the Great American Story

We have a glut of text and trade books on American history. But what we don't have is a compact, inexpensive, authoritative, and compulsively readable book that will offer to intelligent young Americans a coherent, persuasive, and inspiring narrative of their own country. Such an account will shape and deepen their sense of the land they inhabit, and by making them understand that land's roots, will equip them for the privileges and responsibilities of citizenship in American society, and provide them with a vivid and enduring sense of membership in one of the greatest enterprises in human history: the exciting, perilous, and immensely consequential story of their own country. The existing texts simply fail to tell that story with energy and conviction. They are more likely to reflect the skeptical outlook of specialized professional academic historians, an outlook that supports a fragmented and fractured view of modern American society, and that fails to convey to young people the greater arc of that history. Or they reflect the outlook of radical critics of American society, who seek to debunk the standard American narrative, and has had an enormous, and largely negative, upon the teaching of American history in American high schools and colleges. This state of affairs cannot continue for long without producing serious consequences. A great nation needs and deserves a great and coherent narrative, as an expression of its own self-understanding; and it needs to convey that narrative to its young effectively. It perhaps goes without saying that such a narrative cannot be a fairy tale or a whitewash of the past; it will not be convincing if it is not truthful. But there is no necessary contradiction between an honest account and an inspiring one. This account seeks to provide both.

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