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Walter A. McDougall, PhD
WALTER A. MCDOUGALL, PhD is a professor of history and the Alloy-Ansin Professor of International Relations at the University of Pennsylvania. He is also a senior fellow at Philadelphia’s Foreign Policy Research Institute, where he edited Orbis: A Journal of World Affairs. He is a prolific author whose works include Freedom Just Around the Corner: A New American History 1585–1828, Throes of Democracy: The American Civil War Era 1829–1877, and most recently The Tragedy of U.S. Foreign Policy: How American Civil Religion Betrayed the National Interest. His book …the Heavens and the Earth: A Political History of the Space Age won the 1986 Pulitzer Prize for History.
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Read MoreThe American story is one of great physical, intellectual, and spiritual adventure. Gems of American History explores how this extraordinary republic came to be—and what is required to preserve its legacy of liberty.
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