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A Call to Heroism: Renewing America's Vision of Greatness

A Call to Heroism: Renewing America's Vision of Greatness

Gibbon, Peter H.
Gomes, Peter J.

Paperback

General SociologyGeneral United States HistoryGeneral World History

Publisher Price: $18.00

ISBN10: 0802140289
ISBN13: 9780802140289
Publisher: Grove Atlantic
Published: Aug 6 2003
Pages: 304
Weight: 0.76
Height: 0.78 Width: 5.48 Depth: 8.38
Language: English

In A Call to Heroism, Peter Gibbon argues that the heroes we honor are the embodiment of the ideals that America was founded on: liberty, justice, and tolerance chief among them. Because the very concept of heroism has come under threat in our cynical media age, Gibbon believes that we must forge a new understanding of what it means to be a hero to fortify our ideals as we engage our present challenges and face those that lay ahead. Gibbon examines the types of heroes that we have celebrated throughout our history, and along the way, he contemplates the meanings of seven monuments and artworks dedicated to heroes to examine what these places and things say about the America of their time-and what they mean for Americans today.

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