| Description |
xvi, 265 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Contents |
The Founding Fathers -- The Battle of New Orleans -- The Indian country -- The transcontinental railroad -- Grant and reconstruction -- Theodore Roosevelt and the beginning of the American century -- Democracy, Eisenhower, and the war in Europe -- The war in the Pacific -- The legacy of World War II -- Vietnam -- Writing in and about America -- War stories: Crazy Horse and Custer and Pegasus Bridge -- Writing about Nixon -- Writing about men in action, 1992-2001 -- The National D-Day Museum -- American racism -- Women's rights and immigration -- The United States and nation building -- Nothing like it in the world. |
| Subject |
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 |
0743202759 : |
| OCLC # |
ocm50754782 |
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