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Late Uncertainty. The quotations from these early-American rugged optimists make the broad plains of later American thought look barren. The Beards in the part of the book devoted to the 19th Century choose quotations to illustrate the various facets of American civilization, including the works of many an intellectual maverick, from Frederick Turner's theory of the frontier to Admiral Mahan's theories of the influence of sea power. Mahan's faith in a British and American crusade committing the U.S. to a "world-spanning imperialist mission in the name of Christ and civilization" is posed...
Winston Burdett of CBS stood huddled in the cockpit of his plane, between the pilots. "Far below us lay the blue sheet of the Mediterranean and off to the right we saw the coast of Greece, barren and beautiful, with jagged mountains cutting down...
...thousand-foot cliffs of the Final Mountains rising out of barren foothills of Superior, Ariz, looked good to crag-browed Mannheim Kalaf in 1916. They reminded him of his native Syria. He settled down there and went to work in the copper mine. He liked his new home and work. But something was missing. No hajjel. Arizona, fine state though it is, had no hajjeL
...blue Pacific, plunk on the Equator, the U.S. now has an outlying bastion to protect the Panama Canal. Last week the State Department told how the U.S. had acquired military rights on the fabled, sultry, barren Galápagos Islands, long coveted by military strategists of many nations-and especially Japan. Also acquired from the owner, Ecuador, is another base on Santa Elena peninsula, Ecuador's westernmost tip, commanding the entrance to Ecuador's strategic Guayaquil Gulf. These new military outposts form a protective bastion within radius of 785 to 1,000 miles guarding the western approaches...
Carr's purpose in writing Conditions of Peace is to help public opinion in the U.S. and Britain to understand the revolution which we face "whether we like it or not." Says he: "The defense of democracy, like other negative aims, is dead and barren. The challenge of the revolution can only be met by redefining and reinterpreting democracy in a new and revolutionary sense...