Ark of the Liberties: America and the WorldThe United States stands at a historic crossroads; essential to the world yet unappreciated. America’s decline in popularity over the last eight years has been nothing short of astonishing. With wit, brilliance, and deep affection, Ted Widmer, a scholar and a former presidential speechwriter, reminds everyone why this great nation had so far to fall. In a sweeping history of centuries, Ark of the Liberties recounts America’s ambition to be the world’s guarantor of liberty. It is a success story that America, and the world, forgets at its peril. From the Declaration of Independence to the Gettysburg Address to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the United States, for all its shortfalls, has been by far the world’s greatest advocate for freedom. Generations of founders imbued America with a surprisingly global ambition that a series of remarkable presidents, often Democratic, advanced through the confident wielding of military and economic power. Ark of the Liberties brims with new insights: America’s centuries-long favorable relationship with the Middle East; why Wilson’s presidency deserves reappraisal; Bill Clinton’s underappreciated achievements; how America’s long history of foreign policy immediately touches on the choices we face in 2008. Fully addressing America’s disastrous occupation of Iraq, Ark of the Liberties colorfully narrates America’s long and laudatory history of expanding world liberty. |
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Contents
CHAPTER ONE FANTASY ISLAND | 3 |
CHAPTER TWO THE AMERICAN MILLENNIUM | 17 |
CHAPTER THREE A NEW ORDER OF THE AGES | 40 |
CHAPTER FOUR EMPIRE OF LIBERTY | 63 |
CHAPTER FIVE LIBERTY ENSLAVED | 97 |
CHAPTER SIX THE NEW COLOSSUS | 132 |
CHAPTER SEVEN LIBERTY CABBAGE | 158 |
CHAPTER EIGHT THE NEW WORLD IN ALL TONGUES | 190 |
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