自由 美国的历史:Freedom A History of US
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作者： Joy Hakim著
出 版 社： Oversea Publishing House
出版时间： 2004-7-1字数：版次： 1页数： 406印刷时间：开本： 16开印次： 1纸张：I S B N ： 9780195175011包装： 平装内容简介
If members of the History Book Club do not recognize the name Joy Hakim, grade school students know her as the grandmother who writes history. Hakim's widely acclaimed 10-volume A History of US has earned a place in classrooms across the nation. Now she aims to bring history into the nation's homes as well with a companion book for the upcoming PBS miniseries Freedom. She considers herself a storyteller, and indeed, she writes U.S. history from colonial times to the new millennium as the story of the march of liberty. As she recounts the struggles of women, workers, blacks, immigrants and other minorities to participate equally in American society and government, she reiterates the ideals of freedom of religion and speech, and the right to vote, to a fair trial and to education. Despite advertising claims that the book is "for families," Hakim seems to be writing for children. Young readers will like the personable characters, lively action and conversational style ("There's a whole lot more to this freedom story"). Parents may find her chummy "we" presumptuous and her references to the "founding daddies" impudent. The commitment to liberty and justice for all, Hakim writes, is "not corny; it's not maudlin." True; yet for even the most patriotic Americans, her telling of the nation's history may appear a bit of both. 400 color and b&w illus.
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
目录
FOREWORD BY PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH AND MRS. BUSH
INTRODUCTION Ordinary People
PART 1 Independence
PART 2 Revolution
PART 3 Liberey for All?
PART 4 Wake Up, America
PART 5 A Fatal Contradiction
PART 6 A War to End Slavery
PART 7 What Is Freedom?
PART 8 Whose Land Is This?
PART 9 Working for Freedom
PART 10 Yearning to Breathe Free
PART 11 Safe for Democracy?
PART 12 Depression and War
PART 13 Democracy and Struggles
PART 14 Let Freedom Ring
PART 15 Marching to Freedom Land
PART 16 Becoming Free
THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE
FREEDOM IN THE CONSTITUTION
INDEX
CREDITS
