Schama Simon. The American Future: A History

HarperCollins e-books, 2009. — 426 p. — ISBN 978-0-06-187950-0.A De Tocqueville for the 21st century, Simon Schama, NBCC Award winning author of Rough Crossings offers an essential, historical, long view analysis of the American character in The American Future. Shama examines four themes—war, race and faith, immigration, and custodianship of the land—through the prism of the historic 2008 presidential election in a magnificent work that the Wall Street Journal calls a “celebration of American resiliency.”American War.
Veterans Day: 11 November 2007.
The fight for the citadel: soldiering and the Founding Fathers.
The Drop Zone Cafe, San Antonio, Texas, 3 March 2008.
The trials of the Roman.
Taking sides.
Father and son.
The quartermaster general, 1861–64.
John Rodgers Meigs, the Shenandoah Valley, summer and fall 1864.
Montgomery Meigs and Louisa Rodgers Meigs, October 1864–December 1865.
Washington, D.C., February 2008.
Hamilton resurrexit.
American war: Rohrbach-lès-Bitche, the Maginot Line near Metz, 10 December 1944.
American Fervor.
Atlantic City, August 1964.
Saved.
Raven, Virginia, 2008.
Providence.
“Whereas Almighty God hath created the mind free...”.
National Sin.
Jarena Lee.
The sovereignty of the voice.
Easter Sunday, 2008, Ebenezer Baptist Church, Atlanta.
Great white hopes?
Ruleville, Mississippi, 31 August 1962.
What Is An American?
Twilight, Downing Street, June 2008.
Citizen Heartbreak: France, August 1794.
The German threat.
The Chicken Club, south Texas, July 2008.
The immigrant problem in Texas.
The German threat—again.
The importance of Fred Bee.
Grace under pressure.
Jefferson’s Koran.
American Plenty.
Running on empty?
Strawberry fields, 1775.
White Path, 1801–23.
1893.
The church of irrigation.
Ghost house.
Roll up that lawn.
Windmills.
Epilogue: The Impotent Angel?