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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
ISBN-10
0743202759
ISBN-13
9780743202756
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2348734
Product Key Features
Book Title
To America : Personal Reflections of an Historian
Number of Pages
288 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2002
Topic
Military / World War II, United States / 20th Century, Modern / 20th Century, United States / General, Historical
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.9 in
Item Weight
18.5 Oz
Item Length
9.4 in
Item Width
6.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2002-036457
Dewey Edition
21
Dewey Decimal
973
Table Of Content
Table of Contents Preface: Storytelling One: The Founding Fathers Two: The Battle of New Orleans Three: The Indian Country Four: The Transcontinental Railroad Five: Grant and Reconstruction Six: Theodore Roosevelt and the Beginning of the American Century Seven: Democracy, Eisenhower, and the War in Europe Eight: The War in the Pacific Nine: The Legacy of World War II Ten: Vietnam Eleven: Writing in and About America Twelve: War Stories: Crazy Horse and Custer and Pegasus Bridge Thirteen: Writing About Nixon Fourteen: Writing About Men in Action, 1992-2001 Fifteen: The National D-Day Museum Sixteen: American Racism Seventeen: Women's Rights and Immigration Eighteen: The United States and Nation Building Nineteen: Nothing Like It in the World Acknowledgments Index Copyright © 2002 by Ambrose & Ambrose, Inc.
Synopsis
In To America, Stephen E. Ambrose, one of the country's most influential historians, 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.Most important, Ambrose writes about writing history. "The last five letters of the word 'history' tell us that it is an account of the past that is about people and what they did, which is what makes it the most fascinating of subjects." To America is an instant classic for all those interested in history, patriotism, and the love of writing., One of the most popular historians of our time looks back on his life--and on America's history--in a valediction that powerfully weaves together personal experience and historical insights. After touching on the founding fathers, the Battle of New Orleans, the early encounters with the Plains Indians, and topics up to the present day, Ambrose's last chapter is entitled "America's Secrets of Success."
LC Classification Number
E178.6.A38 2002
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