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The Idea That Is America: Keeping Faith With Our Values in a Dangerous World Paperback – May 27, 2008

by Anne-Marie Slaughter (Author)
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The Washington Post Book World named The Idea That This is America one of the best books of 2007

When Army Captain Ian Fishback decided to blow the whistle on prisoner abuse in Iraq and Afghanistan, he posed the central question facing America in the new century: "Will we confront danger in order to preserve our ideals, or will courage and commitment to individual rights wither at the prospect of sacrifice? . . . I would rather die fighting than give up even the smallest part of the idea that is 'America.' "But what is this idea? George W. Bush waged war in Iraq in the name of American values -- liberty and democracy. His critics in the United States and around the world also use the language of values, and attack him for deceiving a nation to wage an unjust war. What are the values that America truly stands for? In The Idea That Is America, a preeminent foreign policy scholar eloquently reminds us of the essential principles on which our nation was established: liberty, democracy, equality, tolerance, faith, justice, and humility. Our ongoing struggle to live up to America's great promise matters not only to us, but also to the billions of men and women everywhere who look to the United States to lead, protect, and inspire the world. In The Idea That Is America, Anne-Marie Slaughter shows us the way forward.
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  1. Print length
    272 pages
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    English
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    May 27, 2008
  4. Dimensions
    5 x 0.69 x 8 inches
  5. ISBN-10
    0465078095
  6. ISBN-13
    978-0465078097
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  • P. C. Altman
    5.0 out of 5 stars Good Conversation Starter
    Reviewed in the United States on May 6, 2008
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    Professor Slaughter's book concerning the essential ideas that make up the foundation of our country provides a great opening for discussions in the classroom, book club, or around the dinner table. It does not matter if you agree with her political orientation as she does a reasonable job of presenting multiple perspectives of each "idea". Even for the ones that are clearly biased, they can still be used to liven up a debate. Ultimately, however, the core values she discusses are things that we should constantly remember; engaging in civil discourse to debate how we get there is more important than following her recommendations.
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  • Beverly
    5.0 out of 5 stars Citizenship
    Reviewed in the United States on November 2, 2013
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    Anne-Marie Slaughter is so articulate. This book should be a text bookin American History classes.I highlighted more passages in this book than I have in a long time.
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  • Michael Wright
    3.0 out of 5 stars While the book certainly accords with my own values, ...
    Reviewed in the United States on June 24, 2016
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    While the book certainly accords with my own values, it seems to gloss over a lot of details and exceptions, that create weaknesses with the overall argument. The treatment of history is very star-spangled with a lot of categorical claims. Given Slaughter's CV, I expected to be more impressed.
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  • Max Bahner
    5.0 out of 5 stars What is America?
    Reviewed in the United States on September 20, 2013
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    Very thoughtful and makes one think. Investigates the fundamental ideas on which our nation founded and how they endure and where .
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  • cata
    5.0 out of 5 stars Highly recommend.
    Reviewed in the United States on July 19, 2015
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    Excellant book. Highly recommend.
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  • Kathryn Carter
    1.0 out of 5 stars Having a bent towards liberal thinking is one thing. ...
    Reviewed in the United States on August 30, 2016
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    Having a bent towards liberal thinking is one thing. This was a book for school and as such, at least I'll get 3 credit hours for reading it. The most frustrating thing about how the author writes this book is how she throws a grenade and walks away with no inkling of how to fix said "problem." Don't get me wrong, I'm not advocating for 10 point plans for everything but something...anything...instead of this.
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  • J. Andrews
    5.0 out of 5 stars Not cynicism, not nationalism, but patriotism
    Reviewed in the United States on September 3, 2007
    What is the point of required courses in American history? It would be easy to dismiss the history lessons that we were taught in high school as revisionist propaganda to indoctrinate us with idealized pilgrims, patriots, pioneers, and transcendental pragmatists. Yet, more honest histories intended to correct the myths, such as James W. Loewen's Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong and Carolyn Baker's U.S. History Uncensored: What Your High School Textbook Didn't Tell You, cynically reveal a dark and sinister past that fails to teach us what distinguishes America from Afghanistan or central Africa (other than geography and the efficient exploitation of rich natural resources). It doesn't help that we live in a time obsessed with rewriting the present through an entire industry devoted to political `spin' and what Stephen Colbert has aptly named "truthiness." Witness the hypocrisies and inconsistencies of our efforts to bring democracy to middle eastern oil-states, even while our special interest groups routinely buy political favors, to celebrate our system of justice, yet enable the war crimes of Abu Ghraib and Guatanamo, to rally to the cause of environmentalism while using natural resources at a per capita rate that exceeds almost all major first-world nations by a wide margin.
    What makes Dr. Slaughter's new book, The Idea that is America so important is that, by refocusing the history of our past deeds as a struggle to live up to our shared principles, it presents a third alternative to hopeless cynicism and blind nationalism. Slaughter, in this storied and passionate book, admits in detail troubling aspects of our country's unglorified past and present, while also providing a clear expression of our founding ideals and how they might lead us out of impotence. It is our values, she states, our deeply-held belief in the ideas of liberty, democracy, equality, justice, tolerance, humility and faith that can help us to illuminate our shadows again and again, and to find a way to see beyond them to a more hopeful future. It was our belief in freedom, for example, that led to the end of slavery, our belief in democracy that gave women and blacks the right to vote, and even our belief in justice and limited executive power that inspired the impeachment of Nixon.
    Thinking of those times in our history when adherence to our founding principles sparked changes that we now take for granted, I can, at least for the moment, feel guardedly patriotic (though decidedly not nationalistic). Slaughter never suggests that this war between a history of ideals and reality is easy. Rather she depicts it as a long and intensely deliberate process. And we should not expect a happy ending. Rather we should not see an ending at all, only a process that we are all a part of, one we should all be a part of, to the best of our abilities.
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  • Camron Pope
    2.0 out of 5 stars Not the best
    Reviewed in the United States on March 22, 2008
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    This book was required for my Political Science class and it is terribly one sided and the facts are incorrect. I would not recommend this book. :(
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    5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 12, 2016
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    Interesting book!
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