Power In Blessed Among Nations
Blessed Among Nations
America, land of the free and home of the brave, built for Americans, but by Americans? America’s accumulation and creation of power is questioned in Eric Rauchway’s novel Blessed Among Nations; Rauchway infers that the world influenced upward trends such as immigration, and increased economic production during the late 19th century; which contributed to America’s overall growth of power.
As the years prior to the Great War rolled forward an upward trend was seen for immigration, reaching an all time high during 1906 (Rauchway 64). Many of which came from Western and Northern Europe, and by this point laborers “in urban areas were 40 percent foreign-born” (25), meaning a significant minority had comprised most American
America, land of the free and home of the brave, built for Americans, but by Americans? America’s accumulation and creation of power is questioned in Eric Rauchway’s novel Blessed Among Nations; Rauchway infers that the world influenced upward trends such as immigration, and increased economic production during the late 19th century; which contributed to America’s overall growth of power.
As the years prior to the Great War rolled forward an upward trend was seen for immigration, reaching an all time high during 1906 (Rauchway 64). Many of which came from Western and Northern Europe, and by this point laborers “in urban areas were 40 percent foreign-born” (25), meaning a significant minority had comprised most American