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Essay Archive - The Nation Takes Shape: A Review
The Nation Takes Shape: A Review
In the book The Nation Takes Shape, by Marcus Cunliffe, the author
has one main point of view, that he expands on throughout the entire novel.
That point of view concerns the first half-century of life under the newly
formed government, under the constitution. He talks about the ways America
began to achieve its own identity in the world in those years. He shows us
how colonials began to become Americans, how a new nation found itself. He
also shows an American character emerging as the new nation expanded across
the continent.
The author highlights many big events in that time per....
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