Forged during the tumultuous but triumphant postwar years when America came of age as a world power, The Irony of American History is more relevant now than ever before. Cited by politicians as diverse as Hillary Clinton and John McCain, Niebuhr’s masterpiece on the incongruity between personal ideals and political reality is both an indictment of American moral complacency and a warning against the . Niebuhr outlines the great ironies of American history, which are: the persistent sin of American Exceptionalism, the indecipherability of history, the false allure of simple solutions, and the failure to appreciate the limits of power (I stole that summary from the intro).4/5(). Forged during the tumultuous but triumphant postwar years when America came of age as a world power, The Irony of American History is more relevant now than ever before. Cited by politicians as diverse as Hillary Clinton and John McCain, Niebuhr’s masterpiece on the incongruity between personal ideals and political reality is both an indictment of American moral complacency and a warning against the Cited by:
Reinhold Niebuhr The Irony of American History Introduction by Andrew J. Bacevich ©, , pages Paper $ ISBN: (ISBN ) For information on purchasing the book—from bookstores or here online—please go to the webpage for The Irony of American History. The irony of American history by Niebuhr, Reinhold, Publication date Topics Ironie Publisher New York, Scribner The triumph of experience over dogma -- The international class struggle -- The American future -- The significance of irony Access-restricted-item true Addeddate Bookplateleaf Boxid. The Irony of American History, which Charles Scribner's Sons published in , grew out of a series of lectures which the Protestant theologian Reinhold Niebuhr () delivered between and Overlapping with the onset of McCarthyism, these lectures were very much concerned with the East-West conflict. In fact, the first lecture was given at Westminster College, in Fulton.
Reinhold Niebuhr The Irony of American History Introduction by Andrew J. Bacevich ©, , pages Paper $ ISBN: (ISBN ) For information on purchasing the book—from bookstores or here online—please go to the webpage for The Irony of American History. In , Niebuhr published The Irony of American History, in which he interpreted the meaning of the United States' past. Niebuhr questioned whether a humane, "ironical" interpretation of American history was credible on its own merits, or only in the context of a Christian view of history. I take away the sense we have to make these efforts knowing they are hard.”—President Barack Obama Forged during the tumultuous but triumphant postwar years when America came of age as a.
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