It was Thomas Jefferson who envisioned the United States as a great &#147;empire of liberty.&#8221; This paradoxical phrase may be the key to the American saga: How could the anti-empire of 1776 became the world&#8217;s greatest superpower? And how did the country that offered unmatched liberty nevertheless found its prosperity on slavery and the dispossession of Native Americans?In this new single-volume history spanning the entire course of US history&#151;from 1776 through the election of Barack Obama&#151;prize-winning historian David Reynolds explains how tensions between empire and liberty have often been resolved by faith&#151;both the evangelical Protestantism that has energized American politics for centuries and the larger faith in American righteousness that has driven the country&#8217;s expansion.Written with verve and insight, Empire of Liberty brilliantly depicts America in all of its many contradictions.

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