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To America: Personal Reflections of an Historian

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Availability:In StockContributor:Stephen E. AmbrosePublish date:2003-10-07Pages:288
Language:EnglishPublisher:Simon & SchusterISBN-13:9780743252126ISBN-10:743252128UPC:9780743252126Book Category:History, Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:United States, HistoriographyBook Topic:20th CenturySize:9.28 x 6.10 x 0.69 inchesWeight:0.7297Product ID:SCG3M6KYPJ
Completed shortly before Ambrose's untimely death, To America is a very personal look at our nation's history through the eyes of one of the twentieth century's most influential historians.

Ambrose roams the country's history, praising the men and women who made it exceptional. He considers Jefferson and Washington, who were progressive thinkers (while living a contradiction as slaveholders), and celebrates Lincoln and Roosevelt. He recounts Andrew Jackson's stunning defeat of a superior British force in the battle of New Orleans with a ragtag army in the War of 1812. He brings to life Lewis and Clark's grueling journey across the wilderness and the building of the railroad that joined the nation coast to coast. Taking swings at political correctness, as well as his own early biases, Ambrose grapples with the country's historic sins of racism; its ill treatment of Native Americans; and its tragic errors such as the war in Vietnam, which he ardently opposed. He contrasts the modern presidencies of Eisenhower, Kennedy, Nixon, and Johnson. He considers women's and civil rights, immigration, philanthropy, and nation building. Most powerfully, in this final volume, Ambrose offers an accolade to the historian's mighty calling.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Simon & SchusterISBN-13:9780743252126ISBN-10:743252128UPC:9780743252126Book Category:History, Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:United States, HistoriographyBook Topic:20th CenturySize:9.28 x 6.10 x 0.69 inchesWeight:0.7297Product ID:SCG3M6KYPJ
Ambrose, Stephen E.: - "Stephen E. Ambrose was a renowned historian and acclaimed author of more than thirty books. Among his New York Times bestsellers are Nothing Like It in the World, Citizen Soldiers, Band of Brothers, D-Day - June 6, 1944, and Undaunted Courage. Dr. Ambrose was a retired Boyd Professor of History at the University of New Orleans and a contributing editor for the Quarterly Journal of Military History."
Publisher: Simon & Schuster

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