Hey enterprising History nerds, here’s your free book idea… the story of the American Century told from two angles: 1) The myth we get told, of the enterprising America that could do anything, the century gets kicked off in the late 19th Century with the building of the Brooklyn bridge vs. 2) The underlying mythologies not explicit yet supporting the other nonsense… and the opposite truths they hide (America as Capitalism’s worldwide bastion and the horrible human/environmental cost…). This century gets kicked off in the mid-to-late 19th Century via Horatio Alger. 

Hey enterprising History nerds, here’s your free book idea…

the story of the American Century told from two angles: 1) The myth we get told, of the enterprising America that could do anything, the century gets kicked off in the late 19th Century with the building of the Brooklyn bridge vs. 2) The underlying mythologies not explicit yet supporting the other nonsense… and the opposite truths they hide (America as Capitalism’s worldwide bastion and the horrible human/environmental cost…). This century gets kicked off in the mid-to-late 19th Century via Horatio Alger. 

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posted : Monday, February 6th, 2012

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