What Makes America Great?

Unlike dry history books <I>What Makes America Great?</I> is written in a breezy personal style. It makes history come alive with humanizing stories about the men and women who made America great.</p><p>·Chapter 1 provides objective proof of America's greatness using a lot of statistics.</p><p>·Chapters 2 and 3 cover the early history of America and explain why we revolted.</p><p>·Chapter 4 explains our victory over England in the American Revolution a tremendous upset. Few Americans know how the colonists achieved this astounding feat.</P><p>·Some modern debunkers like to say that our founding fathers acted out of selfishness rather than principle. Chapter 5 shows the idealism of our founders and details the sacrifices made by the signers of the Declaration of Independence.</p><p>·Our founding fathers were faced with the exciting but daunting task of creating an entirely new kind of country. Well-educated men they based the United States on principles developed by the world's greatest philosophers. Chapter 6 starts with Moses and goes through Locke and Voltaire. Each philosopher's ideas are related to American ideals.</P><p>·The Declaration and the Constitution are the two greatest publications mankind has ever known. But they weren't created out of thin air. Chapter 7 discusses the precedents our forefathers studied before drafting these two great documents.</P><p>·In Chapter 8 each American war is discussed in the light of whether it was just or unjust.</P><p>·Chapter 9 covers the role of immigrants in shaping America. It shows the challenges obstacles and contribution of each immigrant group.</p><p>·No country is perfect not even America. Chapter 10 discusses the five areas in which America has done wrong: Indians slaves women prejudice and education.</p><P>·Chapter 11 is a glimpse into the future of America.</p>