Give Me Liberty, Richard Brookhiser
Give Me Liberty, Richard Brookhiser
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Give Me Liberty
A History of America's Exceptional Idea

Author: Richard Brookhiser

Narrator: Tony Messano

Unabridged: 7 hr 37 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Basic Books

Published: 11/05/2019

Synopsis

An award-winning historian recounts the history of American liberty through the stories of thirteen essential documents
Nationalism is inevitable: It supplies feelings of belonging, identity, and recognition. It binds us to our neighbors and tells us who we are. But increasingly -- from the United States to India, from Russia to Burma -- nationalism is being invoked for unworthy ends: to disdain minorities or to support despots. As a result, nationalism has become to many a dirty word.
In Give Me Liberty, award-winning historian and biographer Richard Brookhiser offers up a truer and more inspiring story of American nationalism as it has evolved over four hundred years. He examines America's history through thirteen documents that made the United States a new country in a new world: a free country. We are what we are because of them; we stay true to what we are by staying true to them.
Americans have always sought liberty, asked for it, fought for it; every victory has been the fulfillment of old hopes and promises. This is our nationalism, and we should be proud of it.

About Richard Brookhiser

Richard Brookhiser is the author of What Would the Founders Do? Founding Father, Alexander Hamilton, American, and America's First Dynasty: The Adamses, 1735-1918. Writer and host of the critically acclaimed PBS documentary Rediscovering George Washington, he is a columnist for Time magazine and a senior editor of National Review. He has also written for the New Yorker and the New York Times. Richard lives in New York City.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Donald on February 15, 2020

Thirteen essays and a conclusion, drawing for each easy on an important document in American history. The author adds background and analysis to this very interesting collection of documents/speeches to draw out and drill down on the idea of liberty. The selection of topics was very thoughtful and t......more

Goodreads review by William on September 09, 2020

In his own words, Richard Brookhiser writes that, in lieu of a complete history of America, “This book focuses instead on thirteen documents, from 1619 to 1987, that represent snapshots from the album of our long marriage to liberty. They say what liberty is.” The author then goes on to say that, in......more

Goodreads review by Kevin on November 11, 2019

Richard Brookhiser's latest book brings all his talents together to offer a short history of liberty in America seen through the eyes of 13 documents. These thirteen chapters together make for a fascinating and inspiring history of the American ideal of liberty. They highlight how we as a nationa an......more

Goodreads review by Bruno on June 28, 2020

"Give Me Liberty: a History of America's Exceptional Idea" traz um panorama histórico da ideia e dos distintos conceitos de liberdade desde a formação dos EUA em tempos coloniais até os dias atuais. No livro, Richard Brookhiser faz uma compilação de treze documentos históricos diversos datados de 16......more

Goodreads review by LuAnne on March 17, 2020

When a professional baseball pitcher loses his curve ball, he goes back to the basics to fix his delivery. Richard Brookhiser looked at a divided United States losing its way and went back to the development and struggles associated with 13 key documents that provided the basic structure of U.S. nat......more

Quotes

"Smart...As historian, Mr. Brookhiser understands the varied standards and qualities of the American experience and interprets its growth with skill and understanding. And as journalist, he performs a key service: joining the ideals and episodes together, defining the theme that makes the United States exceptional."—Wall Street Journal

"[Brookhiser] writes today with the same assurance, intelligence, clarity and directness that characterized his first cover article for National Review."—Washington Times

"Subtle, economic, and gripping...[An] original reflection on the nature of our American experiment, the work of a man who has for many years immersed himself in the minds of those who forged our freedom."—Michael Knox Beran, National Review

"Brookhiser grounds his spirited argument for American exceptionalism in the idea of liberty...An engaging history of admirable episodes from America's past."—Kirkus

"An elegant and lyrical case for the ideal that has shaped America."—Mona Charen

"A collection of profiles that should ignite the spark of national pride and patriotism. Give Me Liberty is an exceptional study of America's 'exceptional idea.'"—Roanoke Times

"Rather than offering a polemic...Brookhiser uses history to make his case...An important text."—Winston-Salem Journal

"In our deeply divided America, Richard Brookhiser goes back in search of our roots, and finds them in that many-headed idea called 'liberty.' In his signature style, he wastes no words, defies the conventional political categories, and invites us to join him in recovering a series of inspirational moments when we all felt the same future in our hearts and minds."—Joseph J. Ellis, author of American Dialogue: The Founders and Us

"With his characteristic combination of elegance and shrewdness, Richard Brookhiser gives us another insightful account of what makes us the nation we are. Give Me Liberty is intellectual history at its riveting best."—H.W. Brands, author of Heirs of the Founders and Dreams of El Dorado

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