Tells the story of how the Amer. spirit developed over four cent., through an exam. of ideals through the personalities who set the course. Includes: ¿City on a Hill¿ sermon by John Winthrop, leader of the Mass. Bay Colony; ¿Common Sense,¿ by Thomas Paine, the most influential tract of Colonial times; the genesis of our nat. motto, ¿e pluribus unum¿; ¿Self-Reliance,¿ by Ralph Waldo Emerson; Manifest Destiny, theme for 19th-cent. territorial expansion; Henry George¿s & tax reform, ¿Progress & Poverty¿; the guiding saint of the Amer.

settlement house movement, Jane Addams; ¿The Melting-Pot,¿ symbol of immigrant hope by Israel Zangwill; Carter Woodson, author of ¿The Negro in Our History,¿; & George Marshall¿s ¿European Recovery Plan¿ after WW2.