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A Sense of History: The Best Writing from the Pages of American Heritage

Richard F. Snow

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Description:For almost 50 years, American Heritage magazine has been telling America's story in articles that have come to represent the best of responsible popular history. In this book, the editors of American Heritage have combed thru every issue to find the most entertaining & illuminating pieces. The result-by turns stirring, moving, funny, evocative, horrifying-is a revealing history of American civilization from the 1st settlements to the close of the 20th century. A Sense of History proves that the best history is the best reading. The authors are numbered among the foremost historians, novelists & public figures of recent years.Introduction/ Richard F. Snow I wish I'd been thereHow to write history/ Dixon Wector"& the mound builders vanished from the earth"/ Robert SilverbergHunt for the regicides/ Alexander Winston "Then & there the child independence was born"/ Richard B. Morris"In the name of the great Jehovah & the Continental Congress!"/ Kenneth S. Davis Our two greatest presidents/ Clinton Rossiter Garden of Eden & the deacon's meadow/ Perry MillerBattle of Lake Erie/ Richard F. Snow Peace of Christmas eve/ Fred L. Engelman Primer from a green world/ Walter Havighurst Children of darkness/ Stephen B. Oates Jackson's fight with the 'monster'/ Bray HammondJohnny Appleseed/ Edward Hoagland Minister & the mill girl/ George HoweHawthornes in paradise/ Malcolm CowleyTammany pioneers/ Richard Reinhardt Farther continent of James Clyman/ Richard Rhodes Prairie schooner/ George R. Stewart Barbarian at the Shogun's court/ Emily HahnFamily divided/ Janet Stevenson Hayfoot, strawfoot!/ Bruce Catton First modern man of war/ B.H. Liddell HartUnexpected Mrs Stowe/ David McCullough Fear of the city/ Alfred Kazin Great Vanderbilt will battle/ Frank Kintrea Historian as celebrity/ John Lukacs Machine that kept them honest/ Gerald CarsonCarnegie & Rockefeller/ Robert L. HeilbronerShould the historian make moral judgments?/ Henry Steele CommagerHenry Adams in the South Seas/ Louis Auchincloss"You'll have to see Morgan"/ Andy LoganFather of Oz/ Daniel P. MannixWinds of ruin/ C.W. Gusewelle Old Fall River Line/ Oliver Jensen "You press the button, we do the rest"/ Bernard A. WeisbergerWoods were tossing with jewels/ Marie St John "Perdicaris alive or Raisuli dead"/ Barbara W. TuchmanAmerican game/ Bruce CattonBig Bill Taft/ Stephen HessIowa Christmas/ Paul Engle World's tallest building/ Spencer Klaw Still quiet on the Western front/ Gene Smith Were Sacco and Vanzetti innocent?/ Francis RussellQuiet earth, big sky/ Wallace StegnerConundrum of corn/ Joseph Kastner Henry Ford's village/ Walter Karp Why the money stopped/ John Kenneth Galbraith "I am the law"/ Thomas J. FlemingSt Lô/ Charles Cawthon Man who could speak Japanese/ William ManchesterWhen I landed, the war was over/ Hughes Rudd Place of Franklin D. Roosevelt in history/ Allan Nevins Revising the twentieth century/ John LukacsNation of immigrants/ Bernard A. WeisbergerHow have we changed? 1954-94ContributorsWe 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 A Sense of History: The Best Writing from the Pages of American Heritage. To get started finding A Sense of History: The Best Writing from the Pages of American Heritage, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 862

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Smithmark Publishers (NYC)

Release: —

ISBN: 0831713682

Description: For almost 50 years, American Heritage magazine has been telling America's story in articles that have come to represent the best of responsible popular history. In this book, the editors of American Heritage have combed thru every issue to find the most entertaining & illuminating pieces. The result-by turns stirring, moving, funny, evocative, horrifying-is a revealing history of American civilization from the 1st settlements to the close of the 20th century. A Sense of History proves that the best history is the best reading. The authors are numbered among the foremost historians, novelists & public figures of recent years.Introduction/ Richard F. Snow I wish I'd been thereHow to write history/ Dixon Wector"& the mound builders vanished from the earth"/ Robert SilverbergHunt for the regicides/ Alexander Winston "Then & there the child independence was born"/ Richard B. Morris"In the name of the great Jehovah & the Continental Congress!"/ Kenneth S. Davis Our two greatest presidents/ Clinton Rossiter Garden of Eden & the deacon's meadow/ Perry MillerBattle of Lake Erie/ Richard F. Snow Peace of Christmas eve/ Fred L. Engelman Primer from a green world/ Walter Havighurst Children of darkness/ Stephen B. Oates Jackson's fight with the 'monster'/ Bray HammondJohnny Appleseed/ Edward Hoagland Minister & the mill girl/ George HoweHawthornes in paradise/ Malcolm CowleyTammany pioneers/ Richard Reinhardt Farther continent of James Clyman/ Richard Rhodes Prairie schooner/ George R. Stewart Barbarian at the Shogun's court/ Emily HahnFamily divided/ Janet Stevenson Hayfoot, strawfoot!/ Bruce Catton First modern man of war/ B.H. Liddell HartUnexpected Mrs Stowe/ David McCullough Fear of the city/ Alfred Kazin Great Vanderbilt will battle/ Frank Kintrea Historian as celebrity/ John Lukacs Machine that kept them honest/ Gerald CarsonCarnegie & Rockefeller/ Robert L. HeilbronerShould the historian make moral judgments?/ Henry Steele CommagerHenry Adams in the South Seas/ Louis Auchincloss"You'll have to see Morgan"/ Andy LoganFather of Oz/ Daniel P. MannixWinds of ruin/ C.W. Gusewelle Old Fall River Line/ Oliver Jensen "You press the button, we do the rest"/ Bernard A. WeisbergerWoods were tossing with jewels/ Marie St John "Perdicaris alive or Raisuli dead"/ Barbara W. TuchmanAmerican game/ Bruce CattonBig Bill Taft/ Stephen HessIowa Christmas/ Paul Engle World's tallest building/ Spencer Klaw Still quiet on the Western front/ Gene Smith Were Sacco and Vanzetti innocent?/ Francis RussellQuiet earth, big sky/ Wallace StegnerConundrum of corn/ Joseph Kastner Henry Ford's village/ Walter Karp Why the money stopped/ John Kenneth Galbraith "I am the law"/ Thomas J. FlemingSt Lô/ Charles Cawthon Man who could speak Japanese/ William ManchesterWhen I landed, the war was over/ Hughes Rudd Place of Franklin D. Roosevelt in history/ Allan Nevins Revising the twentieth century/ John LukacsNation of immigrants/ Bernard A. WeisbergerHow have we changed? 1954-94ContributorsWe 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 A Sense of History: The Best Writing from the Pages of American Heritage. To get started finding A Sense of History: The Best Writing from the Pages of American Heritage, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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