The Intellectual Devotional: American History: Revive Your Mind, Complete Your Education, and...

The Intellectual Devotional: American History: Revive Your Mind, Complete Your Education, and Converse ... | David S. Kidder, Noah D. Oppenheim | EVERYTHING YOU THOUGHT YOU KNEW BUT DIDN'T

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	The Intellectual Devotional: American History: Revive Your Mind, Complete Your Education, and Converse ... David S. Kidder, Noah D. Oppenheim Modern Times, 2007 - 368 pages average customer review:based on 41 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Modeled after those bedside books of prayer and contemplation that millions turn to for daily spiritual guidance and growth, the national bestseller The Intellectual Devotional?offering secular wisdom and cerebral nourishment?drew a year?s worth of readings from seven different fields of knowledge. In this follow-up volume, authors David S. Kidder and Noah D. Oppenheim have turned to the rich legacy of American history for their selections. From Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin to Martin Luther King Jr., from the Federalist Papers to Watergate, the giant figures, cultural touchstones, and pivotal events in our national heritage provide a bountiful source of reflection and education that will refresh knowledge, revitalize the mind, and open new horizons of intellectual discovery.

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Even better than the 1st edition

The only thing I can say is that if you liked the 1st edition, you will also enjoy this one.

EVERYTHING YOU THOUGHT YOU KNEW BUT DIDN'T

Great book for American History buffs. Wait till you read this book. I thought I was pretty sharp until I read this book. Quick little information on 1 page only. Great for High school students taking Am History.

Please Don't Notify the Authorities

I didn't use The Intellectual Devotional in the way it was intended. (That is, reading one entry each day for a year.)

Forget that! There was no way that I was going to wait 24 hours between its excellent and varied entries.

Regarding the few less-than-favorable reader reviews this book has garnered, some do criticize the smallish fonts the authors employ... to these readers, I say muscle up and break out the bi-focals. Each page in this book is devoted to one particular aspect of US history, and on the occasions when I clucked my tongue because some choice tidbit had been left out of a notable American's biography, I'd look the page over again and realize that a profound amount of pithy and important information HAD been included... in short, the Devotional had done as good a job as could be done.

Speaking of pithy, I am now anything but. Buy two copies of this book; one for you, and one for me. (I gave my copy away. Wasn't that a nice gesture?)

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Remembering Important Events of the Past.

Aristotle's theory of matter and form is one of the most important and influential aspects of his philosophy. He saw the world was populated by substances -- concrete individual things, like plants and animals. He attempts to explain the natural world before the advances of modern science. Although many people, believers and atheists alike, argue the existence of God. Philosophers since Aristotle have tried to prove it. Charles Darwin wrote The Origin of Species which proposed the theory that populations evolve over time.

The Parthenon was constructed between 447 and 432 BC on the Acropolis in Athens, Greece and was dedicated to Athena. There is a replica in Nashville, TN, with a tall statue of Athena. During the Dark Ages, after 476 AD, Charlemagne became the ruler of a huge circumverance and was crowned leader of Christendom. Recent genetic studies show that a large percentage of Europeans descend from this Frankish king.

The Sistine Chapel in the Vatican is best known for the ceiling painted by Michelangelo between 1508 and 1512. His scenes and ignudi (along with five pagan sibyls) covered the original painting of a starry sky. The God creating man was placed over the cardinals side of the chapel.

Andrew Jackson founded a new political party, the Democrats, and became the nation's first democratic president. When Abraham Lincoln won the 1860 election with the support of the Northern abolitionists, the Southern states seceded, sparking the Civil War. John Brown was an activist who with his sons created a fiasco at Harper's Ferry and, as a consequence, he was hanged on the spot.

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