American Beliefs - McElroy, John Harmon
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Why do so many different people with widely dissimilar ideas and customs get along as Americans? In American Beliefs, John McElroy identifies and explains those essential ideas that keep a big country and a diverse people united, tracing them historically from their origins in the earliest experiences of the American colonists. A powerful antidote to decades of concentration on the differences among Americans."A magnificent and timely book. John McElroy picks up where de Tocqueville left off."-Charles Moskos.

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Why do so many different people with widely dissimilar ideas and customs get along as Americans? In American Beliefs, John McElroy identifies and explains those essential ideas that keep a big country and a diverse people united, tracing them historically from their origins in the earliest experiences of the American colonists. A powerful antidote to decades of concentration on the differences among Americans."A magnificent and timely book. John McElroy picks up where de Tocqueville left off."-Charles Moskos.
Autorenporträt
John Harmon McElroy, AB Princeton University, PhD Duke University. Participated in firewalking ceremony at San Pedro de Manrique, Soria, Spain, 1969. Organized planting of 500 coastal redwood trees from California in Galicia, Spain, in commemoration of the 500th anniversary of Columbus's first voyage to America. Founder, America's Fabric, a Sunday morning citizen-supported radio show on American culture and history. Walked the length of the medieval Camino de Santiago from Spain's border with France to the shrine of St. James, 2010. Married to Onyria Herrera McElroy, PhD.