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Story and how to tell the story of the country in a way that neither sells a short the National Greatness or whitewashes our National Sins in our politics and what may be an unusual way and this book is clearly intended to speak the gist of the moment to hear about how to approach the questions. Wilfred mcclay is a national treasure. Hes first and foremost the chair of the university of oklahoma he is admired and loved by scores of students past and present and one of the great writers of Americ...

Enjoy booktv now and over the weekend on cspan2. [inaudible conversations] good evening, everybody. Welcome to the American Enterprise institute. On youve all of income director of social cultural and constitutional studies here at aei, and it is my very great pleasure to welcome you to a discussion of land of hope a one volume history of a records bye Great American historian wildred mcclay. Its a book that comes at a time when questions of who we are as people of whether we can have a unifying...

Good evening everybody. Welcome to the American Enterprise institute. Im yuval levin, director of constitutional studies at ai and it is my great pleasure to commute to a discussion of the land of hope, the new one volume history of our country by the Great American story and Wilfrid Mcclay area is a book that comes a time when questions of who we are as a people, whether we can have a unifying rather than a divisive story and of how to tell the story of our country in a way that neither some sh...

Have a unifying rather than a divisive story. Tell the story of our country and away that sell shorter National Greatness nor white watches are national since land of hope is the name of the book. Lots of questions or politics. It might be in an unusual way this book is clearly intended to speak to just a moment pretty slick could it be a better time to hear from him about how to approach these questions. He is first and foremost a teacher and he holds chair in the street of liberty at the unive...

This is clearly intended to speak to just that moment. There couldnt be a better time to hear from on his sense of how to approach in this question. Bill maclean is a national treasure. Wilfred mcclay. Hes admired and beloved by scores of students past and present. It was also one of the great writers of American History. His book, the master list self was judged best book in American Intellectual history the year it was published. Among his other wonderful books of American History are our stud...

Great american historian wilford mcclay. Its a book that comes at a time when questions of who we are as a people, of whether we can have a unifying rather than a divisive story and of how to tell the story of our country in a way that neither sells short our National Greatness nor whitewashes our National Sins are really live questions in our politics, and what may be in what may be an unusual way. This book is clearly intended to speak to that moment. The couldnt be a better time to hear from ...