Give Me Liberty: A History of America's Exceptional Idea
Give Me Liberty: A History of America's Exceptional Idea
Give Me Liberty: A History of America's Exceptional Idea
Give Me Liberty: A History of America's Exceptional Idea
Give Me Liberty: A History of America's Exceptional Idea
Give Me Liberty: A History of America's Exceptional Idea

Give Me Liberty: A History of America's Exceptional Idea

  • Hardcover: 304 pages
  • By Richard Brookhiser
  • Award-winning historian and biographer Richard Brookhiser 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, to many, nationalism has become a dirty word.

    In Give Me Liberty, 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.