Las Animas - Bent County Library District

Compelled by recent events to consider all the remarkable qualities that make our country worth preservin, the author has fashioned thirty short essay-love letters in spirit-that, like all his writing, are sharp, original, funny, graceful, and wise.

Examines how the educations of America's first four presidents, and in particular their scholarly devotion to ancient Greek and Roman classics, informed the beliefs and ideals that shaped the nation's constitution and government.

""The American Dream" is one of the most familiar and resonant phrases in our national lexicon, so familiar that we seldom pause to ask its origin, its history, or what it actually means." "In this short history, Jim Cullen explores the meaning of the American Dream, or rather the several American Dreams that have both reflected and shaped American identity from the Pilgrims to the present. Cullen begins by noting that the United States, unlike most...