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The Irony of American History Reinhold Niebuhr
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Was an exceptional case in the history of modern nations, the idea of “American Exceptionalism” is alive and well. In large part the new articulations on American identity would have to spring from the people and the states, a federated distribution of remembrance and re-enactment. The irony of history was obvious. And yet, if Republic of Nature is fundamentally a book about how American history gets written, and what it looks like when it gets rewritten from a new or neglected perspective, it doesn't deal much with the past 20 or 30 years — the era in which climate has . That's a pretty good off-the-cuff summary of Niebuhr's The Irony of American History,” wrote Brooks. Feeling the need to restore equilibrium in his own perspective Niebuhr wrote The Irony of American History, a cautionary tale against national self-righteousness that continues to have salience in foreign policy circles today. Lehrman has had a life-long passion for the 16th president and later would write and lecture about Abraham Lincoln's legacy in American history. Almost two centuries after Alexis de Tocqueville said that the U.S. The irony is inescapable: a decade ago, Washington chose to immerse itself in the region when it did not have to, carrying out two decadelong wars of choice that involved a total of more than two million American servicemen and servicewomen and ended up costing more than .. Yet even if such is the case, there is a notable irony in studying Jewish American history as part of a formal month of commemoration. Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do? There's a real element of tragedy, and of tragic irony, in many of your chapters: whether the story of cotton and slavery, the building of the transcontinental railroad, or the development of the atomic bomb. The goal at home must be to restore historical levels of domestic economic growth, reduce the ratio of debt to GDP, and improve the quality of the nation's infrastructure and human capital.