Give Me Liberty Pdf

ISBN: 1541699130
Title: Give Me Liberty Pdf A History of America's Exceptional Idea
Author: Richard Brookhiser
Published Date: 2019-11-05
Page: 272

"In our deeply divided America, Richard Brookhiser goes back in search of our roots, and finds them in that many-headed idea called 'liberty.' In his signature style, he wastes no words, defies the conventional political categories, and invites us to join him in recovering a series of inspirational moments when we all felt the same future in our hearts and minds."―Joseph J. Ellis, author of American Dialogue: The Founders and Us"With his characteristic combination of elegance and shrewdness, Richard Brookhiser gives us another insightful account of what makes us the nation we are. Give Me Liberty is intellectual history at its riveting best."―H.W. Brands, author of Heirs of the Founders and Dreams of El Dorado"Brookhiser grounds his spirited argument for American exceptionalism in the idea of liberty...An engaging history of admirable episodes from America's past."―Kirkus Richard Brookhiser is a senior editor of National Review and the author of thirteen books, including John Marshall: The Man Who Made the Supreme Court, Founders' Son: A Life of Abraham Lincoln, and James Madison. He lives in New York City.

An award-winning historian recounts the history of American liberty through the stories of thirteen essential documents

Nationalism is inevitable: It supplies feelings of belonging, identity, and recognition. It binds us to our neighbors and tells us who we are. But increasingly -- from the United States to India, from Russia to Burma -- nationalism is being invoked for unworthy ends: to disdain minorities or to support despots. As a result, nationalism has become to many a dirty word.

In Give Me Liberty, award-winning historian and biographer Richard Brookhiser offers up a truer and more inspiring story of American nationalism as it has evolved over four hundred years. He examines America's history through thirteen documents that made the United States a new country in a new world: a free country. We are what we are because of them; we stay true to what we are by staying true to them.

Americans have always sought liberty, asked for it, fought for it; every victory has been the fulfillment of old hopes and promises. This is our nationalism, and we should be proud of it.

13 valuable American documents In selecting important "documents" to review, no American historian would exclude certain documents, but some documents are a judgment call. Brookhiser picks some of the most obvious, the Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, but he also made some other interesting choices: FDR's arsenal of democracy "fireside chat," displaying his consummate political skills; Reagan's tear down this wall speech, delivered to the world as only President Reagan could; the trial of John Peter Zenger; and William Jennings Bryan's cross of gold speech.As much as I want to pick Reagan's speech, today, November 9th is, after all, the 30th anniversary of the wall's coming down, I must pick the cross of gold speech. My paternal great grandfather was mid-way through his 35-year law career in 1896, in Chicago, and he was involved in Democrat party politics (running for judge twice). I never knew him, nor did I know his son, my grandfather. My own father did not know his grandfather and barely knew his own father since his dad died so young, and then he, himself, died so young, so I have no family legends. But because of Brookhiser's excellent prose, and his attention to detail, in my mind's eye I can picture great granddad at the Chicago Coliseum in the audience on that day, and maybe in the proverbial smoke-filled room.That is why I love history, and why Brookhiser's new book really hits the spot. He identifies all of the players, even those now (almost) lost to history, as if HE were there. An excellent job, indeed.

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