Land of Hope: An Invitation to the Great American Story

Format: Hardcover Language: English ISBN: 1594039372 ISBN13: 9781594039379 Release Date: May 2019 Publisher: Encounter Books Length: 504 Pages Weight: 3.43 lbs. Dimensions: 1.4" x 7.5" x 9.9" Age Range: 13 to 17 years Grade Range: Grades 8 to 12 We have a glut of text and trade books on American history. But what we don't have is a compact, inexpensive, authoritative, and compulsively readable book that will offer to American readers a clear, informative, and inspiring narrative account of their own country. Such an account can shape and deepen their sense of the land they inhabit and, by making them understand that land's roots, and share in its memories, will equip them for the privileges and responsibilities of citizenship in American society. It will provide them with an enduring sense of membership in one of the greatest enterprises in human history: the exciting, perilous, and consequential story of their own country. The existing texts simply fail to t