Ark of the Liberties: America and the World Audiobook

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• “Ted Widmer offers an examination of our history that should influence the way we think about our place in the twenty-first century world. At a time when we need to restore America’s standing in so many places, Ark of the Liberties shows us how we can do it if we remain true to our historic ideals.”

  — Bill Clinton

• “With great skill, eloquence, and frequent humor, Ted Widmer tells the inspiring and fascinating story of America’s extraordinary rise to world pre-eminence from the days of the earliest settlers to the invasion of Iraq. This timely, eminently readable, and highly informative history of the idea of America will be of interest to all who care about our country and the direction we must take in the years ahead to be true to our ideals and regain the respect we have lost in today’s world.”

  — Ted Kennedy

• “In this new, invigorating look at the history of American foreign policy, Ted Widmer...uses his formidable historical skills to explore the area where politics, ideology and religion intersected to produce an understanding of America's place in the world.”

  — Providence Journal-Bulletin

• “[An] elegant history of the ideas that shape American foreign policy...Widmer meticulously traces the contradictions, triumphs, and betrayals of liberty that have unfolded across the centuries of the American experience.”

  — Chronicle of Higher Education

• “Widmer offers a critical, informative and ambitious study that honors the best American impulses without ignoring the times the country has fallen from grace.”

  — Publishers Weekly

• “An unusual and engaging tour of the horizon of American diplomacy that should appeal to both scholarly and general audiences.”

  — Kirkus Reviews