What Is America

A Short History of the New World Order

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What Is America

By: Ronald Wright

Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki

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Following his international best seller, A Short History of Progress, Ronald Wright provokes once again, as he explores the oldest American myth: the endless frontier. In the years since 9/11, many of the archetypes and ideals with which we've traditionally framed the American enterprise now seem endangered, even hollow. This raises the question, has America ever been what it thinks it is? What Is America? goes to the heart of that inquiry.

Ranging with dazzling expertise through anthropology, history, and literature, Wright reconfigures our self-perception, arguing that the "essence" of America can be traced to the foundations of our history - literally to the collision of worlds that began in 1492, as one civilization subsumed another--and exploring how these currents continue to shape our world.

Ronald WrightStefan RudnickiAudible Studios

Americas

Politics & Government

Social Sciences

World

Latin America

Mormon

Imperialism

Socialism

American History

Middle East

Middle Ages

War

Capitalism

Africa

Mexico

Old West

Wild West

Iran

Americas Politics & Government Social Sciences World Latin America Mormon Imperialism Socialism American History Middle East Middle Ages War Capitalism Africa Mexico Old West Wild West Iran

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"[Few] will have likely heard so charming an analysis of American depredations...An entertaining, highly tendentious account of where we've been and where we're headed." (Kirkus Reviews)

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