American Beliefs: What Keeps a Big Country and a Diverse People United - Softcover

Powerful...a persuasive analysis. -- Emory Elliott, Center for Ideas and Society, University of California John McElroy thoroughly expounds with subtlety and depth a point of capital importance. -- John Silber, Boston University Impressive. -- Joseph Epstein * Times Literary Supplement * A magnificent and timely book. -- Charles Moskos, Northwestern University An exceptionally interesting and rewarding book about what makes Americans what they are. -- Jonathan Yardley * The Review of Higher Education *

Why do so many different people with widely dissimilar ideas and customs get along as Americans? In American Beliefs, John Mcelroy identifies and explains those essential ideas that keep a big country and a diverse people united, tracing them historically from their origins in the earliest experiences of the American colonists. A powerful antidote to decades of concentration on the differences among Americans. A magnificent and timely book. John Mcelroy picks up where de Tocqueville left off. Charles Moskos.