000845012 000__ 04294cam\a2200469Ii\4500 000845012 001__ 845012 000845012 005__ 20210515152848.0 000845012 006__ m\\\\\o\\d\\\\\\\\ 000845012 007__ cr\un\nnnunnun 000845012 008__ 180709s2018\\\\enk\\\\\ob\\\\001\0deng\d 000845012 020__ $$a9781350032354$$q(electronic book) 000845012 020__ $$a1350032352$$q(electronic book) 000845012 020__ $$z9781350032330 000845012 020__ $$z9781350032347 000845012 020__ $$z1350032344 000845012 035__ $$a(NhCcYBP)EBC5447723 000845012 040__ $$aNhCcYBP$$cNhCcYBP 000845012 043__ $$an-us--- 000845012 050_4 $$aE907$$b.S37 2018 000845012 08204 $$a973.932$$223 000845012 1001_ $$aSarson, Steven,$$eauthor. 000845012 24510 $$aBarack Obama :$$bAmerican historian /$$cSteven Sarson. 000845012 264_1 $$aLondon :$$bBloomsbury Academic,$$c2018. 000845012 300__ $$a1 online resource. 000845012 336__ $$atext$$btxt$$2rdacontent 000845012 337__ $$acomputer$$bc$$2rdamedia 000845012 338__ $$aonline resource$$bcr$$2rdacarrier 000845012 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 000845012 5050_ $$aIntroduction: The Landscape of Our Collective Dreams; A more perfect union; The landscape of our collective dreams; Barack Obama: American historian; Prologue: A More Perfect Union: Barack Obama's American History; God damn America; America can change; The substance of our common creed; The audacity of hope; WE HOLD THESE truths; What makes us exceptional-what makes us American; The arc of the moral universe; Where the perfection begins; Chapter 1 Our Starting Point as Americans: The American Colonies 000845012 5058_ $$aOur starting point as AmericansIn a hall that still stands across the street; The spring of 1787; Farmers and scholars; statesmen and patriots; Who had traveled across an ocean to escape tyranny and persecution; ; ; A city upon a hill; You would have thought I was Cotton Mather; We are no longer just a Christian nation; Community, democracy, and homespun virtues; He lived usefully; The first settlers; America's original sin; A question that divided the colonies; Our starting point as Americans 000845012 5058_ $$aChapter 2 The Substance of our Common Creed: The Declaration of Independence and the American RevolutionThe substance of our common creed; Creed; A subject of King George; In the year of America's birth; Let it be told to the future world; From this time forward forever; Enlightenment thinkers like Hobbes and Locke; Its roots in eighteenth-century liberal and republican thought; What makes us exceptional; What makes us American; Farmers and scholars; Farmers and scholars; statesmen and patriots; All men are created equal; An American family; Liberty; Where the perfection begins 000845012 5058_ $$aThe pursuit of happinessChapter 3 The Foundation of our Government: The Constitution and the New Nation; The foundation of our government; Stained by this nation's original sin; Finally made real; WE THE PEOPLE; A "deliberative democracy"; One of the Founders' central insights; Before the ink on the constitutional parchment was dry; A sufficient defense against tyranny; The Supreme Court's role in determining the law; Fundamentalist faith; The freedom of the apostate; Fidelity to our founding principles; The context of an ever-changing world; A "wall of separation" between church and state 000845012 5058_ $$aDefending organized religionIn God We Trust E Pluribus Unum; Through the early days of the Union; Conservative or liberal, we are all constitutionalists; Chapter 4 A New Birth of Freedom: Slavery and the Civil War; This nation's original sin; A house that was built by slaves; The answer to the slavery question; The hope of slaves; We're the slaves who built the White House; Any final resolution; Government of the people, by the people, for the people; The self-imposed gag rule; A lawmaker was beaten unconscious on the Senate floor 000845012 506__ $$aAccess limited to authorized users 000845012 533__ $$aElectronic reproduction.$$bAnn Arbor, MI$$nAvailable via World Wide Web. 000845012 588__ $$aOnline resource; title from PDF title page (viewed July 10, 2018). 000845012 60010 $$aObama, Barack$$xPolitical and social views. 000845012 7102_ $$aProQuest (Firm) 000845012 77608 $$iPrint version: $$z9781350032347$$z1350032344 000845012 852__ $$bebk 000845012 85640 $$3GOBI DDA$$uhttps://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/usiricelib-ebooks/detail.action?docID=5447723$$zOnline Access 000845012 909CO $$ooai:library.usi.edu:845012$$pGLOBAL_SET 000845012 980__ $$aEBOOK 000845012 980__ $$aBIB 000845012 982__ $$aEbook 000845012 983__ $$aOnline