America, Empire of Liberty: A New History

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America, Empire of Liberty: A New History

Product Details

Hardcover: 704 pages
Publisher: Allen Lane (19 Jan 2009)
Language English
ISBN-10: 1846140560
ISBN-13: 978-1846140563
Product Dimensions: 23.2 x 15.4 x 4.6 cm

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David Reynolds has written a fantastic book that is both comprehensive in its coverage and intimate in its biographical details of the major players and defining events in American history. It provides an extraordinatry insight into the dynamics that have shaped America from the dichotomy of an anti-empire founded on the ‘will to be free’ that offered liberty and freedom on a scale unmatched by Europe, that founded its prosperity on the labour of black slaves, to the debates that shape modern America, as it does what it has always done – defining its identity as its perpetual struggle against all enemies foreign and domestic, real or imagined.

This is a well-written, thoroughly enjoyable book that provides a new insight into the world’s self-styled only super-power. If you don’t believe me check out the Radio 4 series Reynolds has done based on this book.