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The Idea of America

Our Unethical Republic

William E. White | Posted 05.17.2013 | Politics
Read More: Corruption, Citizenship, Law, American Revolution, Irs Scandal, American Values, 1776, Civics, Self-Government, Legal, The Idea of America, Value Tensions, Citizens, Congressional Insider Trading, American History, Values, Great Britain, Ethics, Standardized Testing, Military Sexual Assault, Politics News
William E. White

Obedience to the law is not enough. Americans demand legal and ethical behavior from themselves and their fellow citizens.

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American Crisis

William E. White | Posted 05.01.2013 | Politics
Read More: Thomas Paine, Dust Bowl, The American Crisis, Civil Rights, American Values, Self-Government, The Idea of America, American History, Abraham Lincoln, Discrimination, World War II, Colonial Williamsburg, Gettysburg Address, Politics News
William E. White

We live in critical times. So has every other generation of American citizens. We cannot realize the promise of our American Revolution by restoring the past. We cannot become the "summer soldier and sunshine patriot" of Thomas Paine's The American Crisis.

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The Idea of America in the Age of Empire

Michael Hughes | Posted 10.01.2012 | Books
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Michael Hughes

At the outset of The Idea of America is an intellectually-stimulating comparison of two schools of thought on the causes of the Revolution.

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