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Description:Half a billion people made America what it is, and all but a comparative handful have passed quietly and anonymously into history. Those we still call by name were men of talent - even greatness - whose public deeds altered their country's future.But even great men may have an obscure side that the world sees little of. Who can be sure that Hamilton would have passed his name to posterity if his shadowed, bitter boyhood had been different? Lincoln's greatness was resent even when he rode the backwoods circuit as a country lawyer. Washington was plagued buy ill health all his mature years. The Antarctic may be our last frontier: who knows that our first claim to it was staked in 1820 by a New England skipper barely out of his teens?The American Heritage Reader brings you the richness of our past by way of fresh, little-used paths. It brings you living history.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The American Heritage Reader. To get started finding The American Heritage Reader, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 253

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Dell Publishing Company

Release: 1956

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Description: Half a billion people made America what it is, and all but a comparative handful have passed quietly and anonymously into history. Those we still call by name were men of talent - even greatness - whose public deeds altered their country's future.But even great men may have an obscure side that the world sees little of. Who can be sure that Hamilton would have passed his name to posterity if his shadowed, bitter boyhood had been different? Lincoln's greatness was resent even when he rode the backwoods circuit as a country lawyer. Washington was plagued buy ill health all his mature years. The Antarctic may be our last frontier: who knows that our first claim to it was staked in 1820 by a New England skipper barely out of his teens?The American Heritage Reader brings you the richness of our past by way of fresh, little-used paths. It brings you living history.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The American Heritage Reader. To get started finding The American Heritage Reader, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

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