American Beliefs: What Keeps a Big Country and a Diverse People United

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Why do so many different people with widely dissimilar ideas and customs get along as Americans In American Beliefs, John McElroy identifies and explains those essential ideas that keep a big country and a diverse people united, tracing them historically from their origins in the earliest experiences of the American colonists. A powerful antidote to decades of concentration on the differences among Americans. A magnificent and timely book. John McElroy picks up where de Tocqueville left off. Charles Moskos.

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Powerful...a persuasive analysis. -- Emory Elliott, Center for Ideas and Society, University of California
John McElroy thoroughly expounds with subtlety and depth a point of capital importance. -- John Silber, Boston University
Impressive. -- Joseph Epstein * Times Literary Supplement *
A magnificent and timely book. -- Charles Moskos, Northwestern University
An exceptionally interesting and rewarding book about what makes Americans what they are. -- Jonathan Yardley * The Review of Higher Education *

Author Bio

John McElroy is emeritus professor of English at the University of Arizona. He has taught and traveled widely in Europe, North Africa, the Middle East, and Latin America, and has twice been a Fulbright professor. He has also written Finding Freedom.