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CHARACTERS ´ IBCTHAI.CO ☆ Michael Medved CHARACTERS á The American Miracle: Divine Providence in the Rise of the Republic S meant to join her when his time cameLeaders from Boston hoped to lure the old lion to the festive commemorations they had planned in the nearby city but Adams declined to make the ten mile trip He even turned down the local Independence Day committee from uincy though he provided them with a sharply worded letter they could read aloud at the upcoming anniversary He wrote My best wishes in the joys and festivities and the solemn services of that day on which will be completed the fiftieth year from its birth of the independence of the United States a memorable epoch in the annals of the human race destined in future history to form the brightest or the blackest page according to the use or the abuse of those political institutions by which they shall in time to come be shaped by the human mindThe committee of his neighbors perhaps hoping that the great man would reconsider his participation in commemorations so close to his home came calling at Peacefield a few days later They asked Adams to suggest a toast that could be presented in his honor on the holiday I will give you he said without hesitation independence foreverAfter a moment of silence his respectful visitors asked if he might consider adding something further He leaned on his cane and scowled back at them from under his halo of white hair Not a word he crisply repliedRAYS OF RAVISHING LIGHT AND GLORYHis friend Thomas Jefferson felt no similar reluctance to discourse at length When Mayor Roger Weightman of Washington DC invited all living former presidents Adams Jefferson James Madison and James Monroe to attend the festival planned for the seat of government each respectfully declined citing the infirmities of age The Sage of Monticello however carefully composed a public response that promptly appeared in newspapers around the country and created a national sensation in the weeks before the holiday He wrote at a desk in his sun dappled chamber where a plaster bust of Adams rested on a shelf and overlooked his colleagues work with assumed approbation Jefferson wrote I should indeed with peculiar delight have met and exchanged there congratulations personally with the small band the remnant of that host of worthies who joined with us on that day in the bold and doubtful election we were to make for our country between submission and the sword and to have enjoyed with them the consolatory fact that our fellow citizens after half a century of experience and prosperity continue to approve the choice we made May it be to the world what I believe it will be to some parts sooner to others later but finally to all the signal of arousing men to burst the chains under which monkish ignorance and superstition had persuaded them to bind themselves and to assume the blessings and security of self government The form which we have substituted restores the free right to the unbounded exercise of reason and freedom of opinion All eyes are opened or opening to the rights of men The general spread of the light of science has already laid open to every view the palpable truth that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs nor a favored few booted and spurred ready to ride them legitimately by the grace of God These are grounds of hope for others for ourselves let the annual return of this day forever refresh our recollection of these rights and an undiminished devotion to themWith this elegantly crafted testament of faith in the work of his own Revolutionary cohort Jefferson managed as he always did to upstage his old friend Even John Adamss son the president of the United States read Jeffersons words and pronounced himself impressed by the elderly Virginians vigor of language and clarity of mindBut it had been the elder Adams not theeffusive Jefferson who first predicted the way a grateful nation would come to rejoice over their bold gamble on nationhood In an exultant letter to his wife Abigail back home in Boston the irascible and tireless patriot had described a fateful day of decision at the Continental Congress in Philadelphia in and then recorded an uncanny burst of prophecy shockingly typical of our founding fathers The delegate from Massachusetts declared that the second day of July when his congressional colleagues first voted to authorize permanent separation from the mother country would become known asthe most memorable epocha in the history of America I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated by succeeding generations as the great anniversary festival It ought to be commemorated as the day of deliverance by solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty It ought to be solemnized with pomp and parade with shows games sports guns bells bonfires and illuminations from one end of this continent to another from this time forward forever You will think me transported with enthusiasm but I am not I am well aware of the toil and blood and treasure it will cost us to maintain this Declaration and to support and defend these states Yet through all the gloom I can see rays of ravishing light and gloryJECTING MR JEFFERSONS SEDITIOUS PAPERUnfortunately it tookthan a generation for those rays to shine in a healing benevolent fashion on the implacably warring factions that afflicted the new nation To a startling extent partisanship undermined the development of a national holiday and even spoiled appreciation of the Declaration which was indelibly associated with its principal author Jefferson a profoundly controversial figure for most of his political career The Federalists who controlled the national government between and felt no inclination to honor Jeffersons masterpiece considering its language too explicitly anti British and suspiciously if vaguely pro French On July two ministers ostentatiously walked out of a public worship service honoring independence when one of their young students insisted on reading aloud from Mr Jeffersons seditious paperWithin a year one of the most vitriolic elections in American history brought the Jeffersonians into full control in the capital The new president delivered a famously conciliatory inaugural address attempting to defuse wild talk of disunion and resistance from some of the indignant Adams loyalists Every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle Thomas Jefferson declared We have called by different names brethren of the same principle We are all Republicans we are all Federalists Nevertheless his triumphal followers displayed a fervent determination to exclude their vanuished foes from their strictly partisan Fourth of July balls and banuets much as they themselves had been excluded in previous yearsOnly with the presidency of James Monroe did the nation finally welcome the Era of Good Feelings in which even the most strident politicos could put aside contempt for the opposition long enough to j. 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Trail give you he said without hesitation independence foreverAfter a moment of silence his respectful visitors asked if he might consider adding something further He leaned on his cane and scowled back at them from under his halo of white hair Not a word he crisply repliedRAYS OF RAVISHING LIGHT AND GLORYHis friend Thomas Jefferson felt no similar reluctance to discourse at length When Mayor Roger Weightman of Washington DC invited all living former presidents Adams Jefferson James Madison and James Monroe to attend the festival planned for the seat of Timothy government each respectfully declined citing the infirmities of age The Sage of Monticello however carefully composed a public response that promptly appeared in newspapers around the country and created a national sensation in the weeks before the holiday He wrote at a desk in his sun dappled chamber where a plaster bust of Adams rested on a shelf and overlooked his colleagues work with assumed approbation Jefferson wrote I should indeed with peculiar delight have met and exchanged there congratulations personally with the small band the remnant of that host of worthies who joined with us on that day in the bold and doubtful election we were to make for our country between submission and the sword and to have enjoyed with them the consolatory fact that our fellow citizens after half a century of experience and prosperity continue to approve the choice we made May it be to the world what I believe it will be to some parts sooner to others later but finally to all the signal of arousing men to burst the chains under which monkish ignorance and superstition had persuaded them to bind themselves and to assume the blessings and security of self Kilpikonna ja olkimarsalkka government The form which we have substituted restores the free right to the unbounded exercise of reason and freedom of opinion All eyes are opened or opening to the rights of men The Nuku hyvin, Punahilkka general spread of the light of 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Boston the irascible and tireless patriot had described a fateful day of decision at the Continental Congress in Philadelphia in and then recorded an uncanny burst of prophecy shockingly typical of our founding fathers The delegate from Massachusetts declared that the second day of July when his congressional colleagues first voted to authorize permanent separation from the mother country would become known asthe most memorable epocha in the history of America I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated by succeeding Midwinter of the Spirit generations as the The Drift Fence great anniversary festival It ought to be commemorated as the day of deliverance by solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty It ought to be solemnized with pomp and parade with shows West of Pecos games sports My Pizza guns bells bonfires and illuminations from one end of this continent to another from this time forward forever You will think me transported with enthusiasm but I am not I am well aware of the toil and blood and treasure it will cost us to maintain this Declaration and to support and defend these states Yet through all the The Mysterious Rider gloom I can see rays of ravishing light and Southeast Asian Specialties (Culinaria) gloryJECTING MR JEFFERSONS SEDITIOUS PAPERUnfortunately it tookthan a Blood and Ice generation for those rays to shine in a healing benevolent fashion on the implacably warring factions that afflicted the new nation To a startling extent partisanship undermined the development of a national holiday and even spoiled appreciation of the Declaration which was indelibly associated with its principal author Jefferson a profoundly controversial figure for most of his political career The Federalists who controlled the national Diary of a Wimpy Kid government between and felt no inclination to honor Jeffersons masterpiece considering its language too explicitly anti British and suspiciously if vaguely pro French On July two ministers ostentatiously walked out of a public worship service honoring independence when one of their young students insisted on reading aloud from Mr Jeffersons seditious paperWithin a year one of the most vitriolic elections in American history brought the Jeffersonians into full control in the capital The new president delivered a famously conciliatory inaugural address attempting to defuse wild talk of disunion and resistance from some of the indignant Adams loyalists Every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle Thomas Jefferson declared We have called by different names brethren of the same principle We are all Republicans we are all Federalists Nevertheless his triumphal followers displayed a fervent determination to exclude their vanuished foes from their strictly partisan Fourth of July balls and banuets much as they themselves had been excluded in previous yearsOnly with the presidency of James Monroe did the nation finally welcome the Era of Good Feelings in which even the most strident politicos 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CHARACTERS ´ IBCTHAI.CO ☆ Michael Medved CHARACTERS á The American Miracle: Divine Providence in the Rise of the Republic The Glorious FourthDedication Death and Fifty Years of MiraclesCoincidence alone could never explain it that much seemed obvious to Americans of just as it does to citizens of today The eerie events of that epochal Independence Day suggested the intervention of supernatural forces mixing death and dedication in such powerful ways that observers of all faiths and of no faith saw evidence of destinys direction in American affairs Even now after nearly two hundred years of turbulent history recollections of that Glorious Fourth can compel the most skeptical scholars to acknowledge weird wonderful aspects in the rise of the Republic and to reconsider the disconcerting old idea that God shows special tenderness toward the American experimentOn the occasion of the fiftieth Fourth of July such confidence in providential protection seemed not only logical but unavoidable After all the older citizens of the federal Union had already witnessed a half century of miracles highlighted by the new nations prodigious growth and unprecedented prosperity Americans viewed themselves as a chosen people selected for special responsibilities to accompany their special blessings and so looked to biblical references to establish the proper context for major public celebrationsThe preparations for the anniversary repeatedly invoked the Old Testament notion of jubilee citing a well known verse in Leviticus And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year and proclaim liberty throughout all the land and unto all the inhabitants thereof it shall be a jubilee unto you After all a portion of this same verse had been inscribed onto the Liberty Bell itself already a cherished national icon just two generations after it reputedly rang out in Philadelphias Independence Hall to celebrate signing of the DeclarationA half century later leaders in every corner of the country arranged for pealing bells in cities villages and crossroads churches in recognition of the breathtaking growth of the young Republic The most recent census showed almost twelve million inhabitants nearly five times the population that had launched a world changing revolution Evendramatic a loose coalition of thirteen thinly settled colonies clinging to a relatively narrow band of territory at the edge of the Atlantic had given way to twenty four flourishing states with plausible dreams of an American empire someday reaching all the way to the PacificIn the midst of this dizzying change Americans of the era clung to their precious remaining connections to the nations heroic origins expressing special gratitude for the unlikely survival of the two titans who had played the most prominent roles in declaring independence At a time when male life expectancy barely reached forty years John Adams the Atlas of Independence and the second president of the United States had passed his ninetieth birthday with his faculties and health remarkably intact From his ancestral home outside of Boston he watched with passionate engagement as his oldest son and intellectual soul mate presided over the government in faraway Washington as the sixth president In fact one of the former chief executives doctors reported that the inauguration of his son in actually enhanced the old mans strength and vitality But physicians do not always consider how much the powers of the mind and what is called good spirits can recover the lost energies of the body wrote Benjamin Waterhouse to President John uincy Adams I really believe that your fathers revival is mainly owing to the demonstration that his son has not served an ungrateful publicSix hundred miles away at the elegant hilltop plantation house he had designed for himself Adamss old friend and sometime bitter rival Thomas Jefferson also defied the actuarial tables At eighty three the third president struggled with various digestive and urinary tract afflictions but he received freuent visitors and maintained a prolific correspondence commenting elouently on current affairs He told his grandson that I am like an old watch with a pinion worn out here and a wheel there until I can go no longer He also carefully prepared for his own demise penning a valedictory poem to his adored surviving daughter enclosing it in a simple elegant box she opened only after his death Then farewell my dear my lovd daughter adieu The last pang of life is in parting from you Yet even with his intensifying focus on his own mortality Jefferson expressed a fierce determination to survive oneFourth of July so that he might breathe the air of the Fiftieth AnniversaryAs the great day approached organizers of the elaborate public festivities in all of the nations most important cities turned their attention to Adams and Jefferson as potential guests to lend historic weight to their celebrations In the Continental Congress of it had been Adams who led the relentless fight for independence and who once he had succeeded recommended his young friend Jefferson to draft the declaration that would explain the decision to a wondering world Now of the fifty six patriots who had affixed their signatures to that final document only these two and oneeighty eight year old Charles Carroll of Maryland were alive to see the half century commemoration of their handiworkDespite pleas from every corner of the country frail health and the rigors of travel made the journey unthinkable for each of the old men Adams would have dearly loved to join his son at the White House to preside together over the capitals Grand Jubilee but a journey to Washington would have consumedthan five days rattling over rough roads in stiflingly hot stagecoaches and making brief water passages on belching filthy steamboatsInstead he received visitors in the sprawling comfortably cluttered two story uincy residence Peacefield he had called home since He had inhabited the house for the uarter century since disillusioned voters turned him out of the White House after his single term following an exceptionally nasty and painfully personal campaign waged against him by followers of Jefferson his old friend Adams and his wife Abigail first acuired the structure and its forty acres of verdant fields and orchards at the conclusion of his diplomatic service in Europe following the Revolution it stood just down a country road from the modest saltbox home in which he had been born and raised and from the similarly unassuming neighboring structure in which his son John uincy first opened his eyes to the New England sunlight The old man still owned both buildings and hoped to keep them in the family for perpetuity His beloved Abigail had left him a widower eight years before with her reported last words Do not grieve my friend my dearest friend I am ready to go And John it will not be long She rested now in the local churchyard where her husband of fifty four year. Pokémon growth and unprecedented prosperity Americans viewed themselves as a chosen people selected for special responsibilities to accompany their special blessings and so looked to biblical references to establish the proper context for major public celebrationsThe preparations for the anniversary repeatedly invoked the Old Testament notion of jubilee citing a well known verse in Leviticus And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year and proclaim liberty throughout all the land and unto all the inhabitants thereof it shall be a jubilee unto you After all a portion of this same verse had been inscribed onto the Liberty Bell itself already a cherished national icon just two Brionne generations after it reputedly rang out in Philadelphias Independence Hall to celebrate signing of the DeclarationA half century later leaders in every corner of the country arranged for pealing bells in cities villages and crossroads churches in recognition of the breathtaking The Discovery of New Worlds growth of the young Republic The most recent census showed almost twelve million inhabitants nearly five times the population that had launched a world changing revolution Evendramatic a loose coalition of thirteen thinly settled colonies clinging to a relatively narrow band of territory at the edge of the Atlantic had Minha Senhora de Mim given way to twenty four flourishing states with plausible dreams of an American empire someday reaching all the way to the PacificIn the midst of this dizzying change Americans of the era clung to their precious remaining connections to the nations heroic origins expressing special Love: A Book of Days gratitude for the unlikely survival of the two titans who had played the most prominent roles in declaring independence At a time when male life expectancy barely reached forty years John Adams the Atlas of Independence and the second president of the United States had passed his ninetieth birthday with his faculties and health remarkably intact From his ancestral home outside of Boston he watched with passionate engagement as his oldest son and intellectual soul mate presided over the Parlor Games: Amusements and Entertainment for Everyone government in faraway Washington as the sixth president In fact one of the former chief executives doctors reported that the inauguration of his son in actually enhanced the old mans strength and vitality But physicians do not always consider how much the powers of the mind and what is called L.A.U.G.H. good spirits can recover the lost energies of the body wrote Benjamin Waterhouse to President John uincy Adams I really believe that your fathers revival is mainly owing to the demonstration that his son has not served an ungrateful publicSix hundred miles away at the elegant hilltop plantation house he had designed for himself Adamss old friend and sometime bitter rival Thomas Jefferson also defied the actuarial tables At eighty three the third president struggled with various digestive and urinary tract afflictions but he received freuent visitors and maintained a prolific correspondence commenting elouently on current affairs He told his The Gospel Centered Life grandson that I am like an old watch with a pinion worn out here and a wheel there until I can The U.P. Trail go no longer He also carefully prepared for his own demise penning a valedictory poem to his adored surviving daughter enclosing it in a simple elegant box she opened only after his death Then farewell my dear my lovd daughter adieu The last pang of life is in parting from you Yet even with his intensifying focus on his own mortality Jefferson expressed a fierce determination to survive oneFourth of July so that he might breathe the air of the Fiftieth AnniversaryAs the Timothy great day approached organizers of the elaborate public festivities in all of the nations most important cities turned their attention to Adams and Jefferson as potential Kilpikonna ja olkimarsalkka guests to lend historic weight to their celebrations In the Continental Congress of it had been Adams who led the relentless fight for independence and who once he had succeeded recommended his young friend Jefferson to draft the declaration that would explain the decision to a wondering world Now of the fifty six patriots who had affixed their signatures to that final document only these two and oneeighty eight year old Charles Carroll of Maryland were alive to see the half century commemoration of their handiworkDespite pleas from every corner of the country frail health and the rigors of travel made the journey unthinkable for each of the old men Adams would have dearly loved to join his son at the White House to preside together over the capitals Grand Jubilee but a journey to Washington would have consumedthan five days rattling over rough roads in stiflingly hot stagecoaches and making brief water passages on belching filthy steamboatsInstead he received visitors in the sprawling comfortably cluttered two story uincy residence Peacefield he had called home since He had inhabited the house for the uarter century since disillusioned voters turned him out of the White House after his single term following an exceptionally nasty and painfully personal campaign waged against him by followers of Jefferson his old friend Adams and his wife Abigail first acuired the structure and its forty acres of verdant fields and orchards at the conclusion of his diplomatic service in Europe following the Revolution it stood just down a country road from the modest saltbox home in which he had been born and raised and from the similarly unassuming neighboring structure in which his son John uincy first opened his eyes to the New England sunlight The old man still owned both buildings and hoped to keep them in the family for perpetuity His beloved Abigail had left him a widower eight years before with her reported last words Do not Nuku hyvin, Punahilkka grieve my friend my dearest friend I am ready to Omega go And John it will not be long She rested now in the local churchyard where her husband of fifty four year.

CHARACTERS ´ IBCTHAI.CO ☆ Michael Medved CHARACTERS á The American Miracle: Divine Providence in the Rise of the Republic Ointly fire cannon march in flag waving parades gorge themselves at public banuets and toast the Republic with brimming silver bowls of rum in community wide celebrations of Independence Day In part this development reflected the disappearance of the most divisive issue of Americas early years the ongoing world war between Britain and France in which competing US factions took opposite sides With Napoleons definitive defeat in the old Federalists and their heirs had noreason to fear the rampages of imperial or revolutionary France just as Jeffersons Democratic Republican minions felt less inclination toward bitterness against the globally victorious British Empire they had battled in both a bloody revolution and the War of Monroe won reelection with no organized opposition and during his second term even aging political warriors most notably Adams and Jefferson began to embrace the idea that their common values and shared experiences counted forthan ideological distinctions or colliding ambitionsAfter all the most discerning among them understood that the rising Republic faceddangerous divisions than the wearying resentments between the fading Federalists and the ruling Republicans Though himself a lifelong slaveholder Jefferson displayed prophetic foresight in predicting the way that raging arguments over the extension of slavery to not yet settled territories posed a lethal threat to the cause of national union In a startling letter Jefferson wrote from Monticello about the national debate surrounding the Missouri Compromise and the admission to the Union of a new slave state This momentous uestion like a fire bell in the night awakened and filled me with terror he lamented to his friend John Holmes congressman from anti slavery Massachusetts and later a senator from Maine I considered it at once as the knell of the Union It is hushed indeed for the moment But this is a reprieve only not a final sentence A geographical line coinciding with a marked principle moral and political once conceived and held up to the angry passions of men will never be obliterated and every new irritation will mark it deeper and deeper In the midst of his long retirementthan eleven years after leaving the tumult of Washington the then seventy seven year old Jefferson foresaw the long tortured process that led in four decades to secession civil war and the most prodigious bloodletting in the nations history I regret that I am now to die in the belief that the useless sacrifice of themselves by the generation of to acuire self government and happiness to their country is to be thrown away by the unwise and unworthy passions of their sons and that my only consolation is to be that I live not to weep over itAbsolutely spectacular This book is must reading for anyone not yet fully convinced that Gods hand has been on America from the very beginning The stories in it are genuinely staggering fascinating eye opening and deeply inspiring Please do yourself a favor and read this book Eric Metaxas New York Times bestselling author of Bonhoeffer and If You Can Keep It Whether it was God or the gods some crucial moments in American history have turned on providential events that defy rational explanation Medved has a keen eye for such semi supernatural stories and tells them with his customary clarityJoseph J Ellis Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner Author of Founding Brothers Michael Medved does a beautiful job of piecing together the most providential parts of our historyfrom the story of indestructible George Washington to the miracle of Lincoln And I cant help but agree with his argument To believe America is exceptional is simply to be grateful for what God has given us Paul Ryan Speaker of the US House of Representatives Michael Medved s wonderful new book makes a compelling case for two beliefs that many of us hold dearthat God s hand is in history and that America is a divinely favored country Given the dark mood of the moment The American Miracle could not betimelyJoseph I Lieberman former US Senator from Connecticut Democratic nominee for Vice PresidentWithout denying the difficulties our nation faces Medved reminds usthat we havefaced problems in the past and endured because of our national idealsand that the same principles that have driven American exceptionalism in the past can help light the way out of our present darknessRead this book to renew your hope in AmericaDr Arthur C Brooks president of American Enterprise Institute author of The Conservative HeartThis is a brisk joyous romp through some of the most critical providential moments that made America an exceptional nation told by a Yale trained historian who writes with brio and conviction Karl Rove Senior Advisor to President George W BushIf you love reading American history or any history written like a page turning novel or just love great writingthe artistry of words that often readlike poetry than prose you will love this book The fact that Michael Medved gives the reader all of these makes this a must readLanny J Davis former Special Counsel to President Clinton author of Truth to Tell Michael Medved has written an engaging affectionate and historically compelling book about America The American Miracle is a source of knowledge a source of comfort a source of inspiration After reading it youll know America better and treasureherPeter Wehner White House aide to Presidents George Bush and George W Bush Senior Fellow Ethics and Public Policy CenterMichael Medved has written a timely study of the centrality of faith and providence in the American story challenging Americans to reaffirm the religious ideals on which their nation was founded Read it and be inspiredRabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks former Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth author of Not in God s NameMichael Medved chronicles in intriguing detail how America s unlikely founding and enduring success can t be explained by luck or coincidence but only one thing divine providence After reading this book even the toughest skeptics will be hard pressed not to believe that God had a role in Americas fortune Bill BennettSecretary of Education under President Reagan author of America The Last Best HopeMedved speaks truth boldly and reasons carefully and he is also a most gifted writer In The American Miracle he reminds us that there once was a day when Americans knew the history of our country as a story of promise and providence and he is confident that Americans can learn that story againR Albert Mohler Jr President the Southern Baptist Theological SeminaryEven readers well versed in American history will enjoy his account of the random coincidences and uirks of fate that lead to the founding of the Republic of Texas and the annexation of California afascinating and provocative bookCommenta. 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colliding ambitionsAfter all the most discerning among them understood that the rising Republic faceddangerous divisions than the wearying resentments between the fading Federalists and the ruling Republicans Though himself a lifelong slaveholder Jefferson displayed prophetic foresight in predicting the way that raging arguments over the extension of slavery to not yet settled territories posed a lethal threat to the cause of national union In a startling letter Jefferson wrote from Monticello about the national debate surrounding the Missouri Compromise and the admission to the Union of a new slave state This momentous uestion like a fire bell in the night awakened and filled me with terror he lamented to his friend John Holmes congressman from anti slavery Massachusetts and later a senator from Maine I considered it at once as the knell of the Union It is hushed indeed for the moment But this is a reprieve only not a final sentence A نساء حول الرسول والرد على مفتريات المستشرقين geographical line coinciding with a marked principle moral and political once conceived and held up to the angry passions of men will never be obliterated and every new irritation will mark it deeper and deeper In the midst of his long retirementthan eleven years after leaving the tumult of Washington the then seventy seven year old Jefferson foresaw the long tortured process that led in four decades to secession civil war and the most prodigious bloodletting in the nations history I regret that I am now to die in the belief that the useless sacrifice of themselves by the Full Circle generation of to acuire self Three Green Bottles government and happiness to their country is to be thrown away by the unwise and unworthy passions of their sons and that my only consolation is to be that I live not to weep over itAbsolutely spectacular This book is must reading for anyone not yet fully convinced that Gods hand has been on America from the very beginning The stories in it are Overcoming 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makes a compelling case for two beliefs that many of us hold dearthat God s hand is in history and that America is a divinely favored country Given the dark mood of the moment The American Miracle could not betimelyJoseph I Lieberman former US Senator from Connecticut Democratic nominee for Vice PresidentWithout denying the difficulties our nation faces Medved reminds usthat we havefaced problems in the past and endured because of our national idealsand that the same principles that have driven American exceptionalism in the past can help light the way out of our present darknessRead this book to renew your hope in AmericaDr Arthur C Brooks president of American Enterprise Institute author of The Conservative HeartThis is a brisk joyous romp through some of the most critical providential moments that made America an exceptional nation told by a Yale trained historian who writes with brio and conviction Karl Rove Senior Advisor to President George W BushIf you love reading American history or any history written like a page turning novel or just love Brionne great writingthe artistry of words that often readlike poetry than prose you will love this book The fact that Michael Medved The Discovery of New Worlds gives the reader all of these makes this a must readLanny J Davis former Special Counsel to President Clinton author of Truth to Tell Michael Medved has written an engaging affectionate and historically compelling book about America The American Miracle is a source of knowledge a source of comfort a source of inspiration After reading it youll know America better and treasureherPeter Wehner White House aide to Presidents George Bush and George W Bush Senior Fellow Ethics and Public Policy CenterMichael Medved has written a timely study of the centrality of faith and providence in the American story challenging Americans to reaffirm the religious ideals on which their nation was founded Read it and be inspiredRabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks former Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth author of Not in God s NameMichael Medved chronicles in intriguing detail how America s unlikely founding and enduring success can t be explained by luck or coincidence but only one thing divine providence After reading this book even the toughest skeptics will be hard pressed not to believe that God had a role in Americas fortune Bill BennettSecretary of Education under President Reagan author of America The Last Best HopeMedved speaks truth boldly and reasons carefully and he is also a most Minha Senhora de Mim gifted writer In The American Miracle he reminds us that there once was a day when Americans knew the history of our country as a story of promise and providence and he is confident that Americans can learn that story againR Albert Mohler Jr President the Southern Baptist Theological SeminaryEven readers well versed in American history will enjoy his account of the random coincidences and uirks of fate that lead to the founding of the Republic of Texas and the annexation of California afascinating and provocative bookCommenta.