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Fair, fair. 385, illus., chapter notes, suggested supplementary readings, index, damp stains to rear board & bottom spine, DJ worn & soiled. Small tears and chips to DJ edges, sticker scuff on front DJ flap.
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Good in Fair jacket. xii, 385, [3] pages. Footnotes. Notes to Chapters. Illustrations. Suggested Supplementary Readings Index. DJ has wear, tears, chips and soiling. Previous owners stamp and address label on fep. Edward McNall Burns (1897-1972) was an American educator, author Recipient Distinguished Research award Rutgers Research Council, 1957. At one point Professor Burns was Chairman of the Political Science Department at Rutgers. He served in the U.S. Army Engineer Corps during WWI. He eared his Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh in 1935. He was a Member of the American History Association, American Political Science Association, and the American Association University Professors. Among the topics addressed are Mission, Heritage, Promisted Land, Democracy, Freedom, Equaluty, Individualism, Religion, Morality, War, Empire, Leadership, Social Engineering, Welfare State, American Dream, Education, and Free Enterprise. The idea of America as a land of promise and mission existed even before the continent was settled. Europeans, looking for a new and batter way of life, came here in search of a preconceived ideal. Since the time of the earliest colonists, through the age of Jefferson and Madison, down to the present day, the idea of mission, although changing from age to age, has been always present. This book is, in effect, a study in American idealism and practical-mindedness, those two extremes of the national thinking which continue to divide the people into at least two political parties, and who knows how may more ideological ones? Here is what Americans have thought--right or wrong--about such critical issues as freedom, equality, individualism, war, education, religion, democracy, empire-building, conservation, race, Quoting leaders from George Washington to Dwight Eisenhower, the author traces the development of national positions and thinking--sometimes influenced by powerful men, sometimes by momentous events--around concepts that have formed the national character.
