The American Story
by Garet Garrett Author
The images that the author presses on the mind in The American Story--a complete biography of a country--are vivid and telling, the product of a lifetime of study and the wisdom of age. The Wall Street Journal called this book "probably the most brilliant long historical essay on America that has ever been written." A book this great should have been read by all high school students in this country, but instead it died an early death. The political culture of the time found it inadmissible with too many unthinkable thoughts. Garrett struck the budding conservative movement as too erudite and too principled to fit in with the organizing plan of new times. He was left to write for the ages. Thus does the Mises Institute release this masterpiece more than 50 years after it quickly came and went. It is the sort of book that changes the way we think about our own history, and to celebrate the wisdom of a great American essayist and novelist.
Additional Details
- Resource Type
- Book
- ISBN
- 9781610161763
- Print Status
- In Print
- Chapters
- 49
- Pages
- 401
- Suggested Grades
- 9th - 12th
- Geographical Setting
- America
- Publisher
- Ludwig von Mises Institute
- Copyright
- 1955
Chapters
- 1 Apologue
- 2 The World in Europe's Belly
- 3 The American Story Begins
- 4 Freedom on a Raft
- 5 Bearding the Reluctant Lion
- 6 Giant in the Gristle
- 7 The Feud with Time
- 8 Concerning Men
- 9 Freedom's Lares and Penates
- 10 The American System
- 11 Land Ecstasy
- 12 Killing the Giant Reptile
- 13 The Heat of Sin
- 14 Lincoln
- 15 In the Scales of Battle
- 16 Oversize Sinews
- 17 Laissez Faire
- 18 Losing Heaven and Hell
- 19 A Gilded Conscience
- 20 Quarreling Over Division
- 21 Satan Was Money
- 22 World, Move Over
- 23 Going Forth
- 24 The First Roosevelt
- 25 The Big Stick at Home
- 26 Mr. Wilson's Crusade
- 27 The Wily Old World
- 28 Strange Normalcy
- 29 Abyss
- 30 A Treacherous Dawn
- 31 The Roosevelt Revolution
- 32 Prolapse
- 33 Unplanned Debacle
- 34 The Red Snake
- 35 Stalking a War
- 36 Backing Into It
- 37 Whence the Attack Came
- 38 The Tools of War
- 39 Comrades All
- 40 On His Feet
- 41 Might
- 42 Suicide of Victory
- 43 Chronology Continued: The Bomb
- 44 Face of Empire
- 45 Buying Allies
- 46 The Top of the World
- 47 Looking Back
- 48 Apostrophe
- 49 Apologue
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