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xvi, 265 pages ; 24 cm. |
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Includes index. |
| Contents |
Preface: Storytelling -- 1. The Founding Fathers -- 2. The Battle of New Orleans -- 3. The Indian Country -- 4. The Transcontinental Railroad -- 5. Grant and Reconstruction -- 6. Theodore Roosevelt and the Beginning of the American Century -- 7. Democracy, Eisenhower, and the War in Europe -- 8. The War in the Pacific -- 9. The Legacy of World War II -- 10. Vietnam -- 11. Writing in and About America -- 12. War Stories: Crazy Horse and Custer and Pegasus Bridge -- 13. Writing About Nixon -- 14. Writing About Men in Action, 1992-2001 -- 15. The National D-Day Museum -- 16. American Racism -- 17. Women's Rights and Immigration -- 18. The United States and Nation Building -- 19. Nothing Like It in the World. |
| Summary |
"In To America, Stephen E. Ambrose reflects on his long career as an American historian and explains what an historian's job is all about. He celebrates America's spirit, which has carried us so far. He confronts its failures and struggles. As always in his much acclaimed work, Ambrose brings alive the men and women, famous and not, who have peopled our history and made the United States a model for the world." "Taking a few swings at today's political correctness, as well as his own early biases, Ambrose grapples with the country's historic sins of racism, its neglect and ill treatment of Native Americans, and its tragic errors (such as the war in Vietnam, which he ardently opposed on campus, where he was a professor). He reflects on some of the country's early founders who were progressive thinkers while living a contradiction as slaveholders, great men such as Washington and Jefferson. He contemplates the genius of Andrew Jackson's defeat of a vastly superior British force with a ragtag army in the War of 1812. He describes the grueling journey that Lewis and Clark made to open up the country, and the building of the railroad that joined it and produced great riches for a few barons." "Ambrose explains the misunderstood presidency of Ulysses S. Grant, records the country's assumption of world power under the leadership of Theodore Roosevelt, and extols its heroic victory of World War II. He writes about women's rights and civil rights and immigration, founding museums, and nation-building. He contrasts the presidencies of Dwight Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Richard Nixon, and Lyndon B. Johnson. Throughout, Ambrose celebrates the unflappable American spirit."--BOOK JACKET., and postmoder m0 Ä. |
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Ambrose, Stephen E.
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Historians -- United States -- Biography.
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United States -- History.
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United States -- Biography.
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United States -- Historiography.
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| ISBN |
9780743252126 (pbk.) |
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0743252128 (pbk.) |
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9780743202756 |
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0743202759 : £16.99 |
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