Abstract
"We have a great many historical books today designed for young readers--books about particular aspects of the American past, representing every ethnic and racial group and every religious and social persuasion. But what we have been lacking is a charming and compelling book that can stand at the center of it all, and acquaint our young people with the larger story of which their story is a part. The great American story. The runaway success of Wilfred McClay's 2019 book LAND OF HOPE has provided a model of has been needed for so long; and it's in the spirit of that work that Encounter Books will publish this special edition, with language and contents designed especially with younger readers in mind. The great themes of the nation's history will all presented resoundingly: the search for religious liberty, the heroic battles of the American Revolution, the great controversies of the Constitutional Convention, the exhilaration of national expansion, the traumas of civil war and reconciliation, the rise to world leadership. But the great themes will also be accompanied by smaller themes: what it felt like to live in a colonial village, or a midwestern pioneering town, or as a cowboy on the range. Like its namesake and predecessor, the Young Reader's edition of LAND OF HOPE is a great invitation, one that will tantalize its readers and leaving them hungry to learn more"--