Liberty's Surest Guardian Rebuilding Nations after War from the Founders to Obama

Name: Liberty's Surest Guardian Rebuilding Nations after War from the Founders to Obama
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ISBN: 9781439119136

ISBN-10: 1439119139

ISBN-13: 9781439119136

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Authors: Jeremi Suri

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We are a nation-building people, and Jeremi Suri—Nobel Fellow and leading light in the next generation of policy makers—looks to America’s recent history to see what America has to offer failed states around the world—now in paperback.Nation-building is in America’s DNA. It dates back to the days of the Revolution when the founding fathers invented the concept of Popular Sovereignty—the idea that you cannot have a national government without a collective will. The framers of the Constitution fervently hoped that this concept would become contagious, spreading around the world and thus ensuring America’s security. They initiated a policy of cautious nation-building, hoping not to conquer…

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List price: $18.00
Publisher: Free Press
Publication date: 7/17/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 368
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English

Karen L. King is Hollis Professor of Divinity at the Divinity School, Harvard University.Jeremi Suri is E. Gordon Fox Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.



Introduction



The American Nation-Building Creed



Reconstruction After Civil War



Reconstruction After Empire



Reconstruction After Fascism



Reconstruction After Communist Revolution



Reconstruction After September 11


Conclusion: The Future of Nation-Building


Notes


Acknowledgments


Index