The Irony of American History

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By Reinhold Niebuhr

Scribner, 1952, 174 pp

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This stimulating book is less a reinterpretation of American history than a searching commentary on the position of the United States in the world and the complex interplay of our ideals, ambitions, myths, practice and achievements.

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