02782cim a2200385 i 4500 2521318546 TxAuBib 20240826120000.0 r 250812s2020||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781666551662 sound recording : hoopla Audio Book 166655166X sound recording : hoopla Audio Book MWT13249117 Midwest rda TxAuBib rda McClay, Wilfred M, author. Land of Hope [Hoopla] / Wilfred M. McClay. Unabridged. [United States : Dreamscape Media, 2020. Made available through hoopla. 1 online resource (1 audio file (20hr., 23 min.)) : digital. spw rdacontent c rdamedia cr rdacarrier Instant title available through hoopla. Read by Pete Cross. We have a glut of text and trade books on American history. But what we don't have is a compact, inexpensive, and authoritative book that will offer to American citizens a clear, informative, and inspiring narrative account of their own country. Such an account can shape and deepen their sense of the land they inhabit and, by making them understand that land's roots, and share in its memories, equip them for the privileges and responsibilities of citizenship in American society. It will provide them with an enduring sense of membership in one of the greatest enterprises in human history: the exciting, perilous, and 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 or partial outlook of specialized professional academic historians, an outlook that leads to a fragmented and fractured view of modern American society and fails to convey the greater arc of history. A great nation needs and deserves a great and coherent narrative as an expression of its own self-understanding, and it needs to be able 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 of the American past and an inspiring one. This account seeks to provide both. Mode of access: World Wide Web. Hoopla Audiobook. History. Reference books. North America. Cross, Pete, reader. hoopla digital. https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/13249117?utm_source=MARC&Lid=hh2017 https://d2snwnmzyr8jue.cloudfront.net/dsa_9781662000102_180.jpeg Cover image