Story of America: Freedom and Crisis from Settlement to Superpower by DK Publishing
	List Price:   $35.00 Unit Price:   $28.00 You Save:   $7.00 (20%) ISBN-10:   0789489031 ISBN-13:   9780789489036 Publisher:   DK Publishing, Inc. Edition:   illustrated Category:   Non-Fiction Pub. Date:   October 2002 Pages:   672 Format:   Hardcover
Awards
2007  Volunteer State Book Award  Nominee/Honoree
Description/Notes
This history of the United States is complete with twists and turns, heroes and villains, lovers, saints and even some comic relief. The Story of America presents the history of the United States not as a parade of facts and dates but as a story with twists and turns, heroes and villains, lovers, saints - and even some comic relief. With the help of more than two dozen eminent colleagues, many of them Pulitzer Prize-winners, Allen Weinstein and David Rubel give you American history from Columbus to the present not as you've studied it before, but as Americans lived it at the time. It's a fascinating way to understand how America became a world power and the ways in which the nation's past continue to impact its present. With hundreds of brilliant images, and prose as captivating as that of any good novel, The Story of America fills in the blanks in your education with tales and observations that delight as they inform. This chronicle of our nation from pre-Columbian times is not a dry collection of dates and facts but rather a dramatic story filled with twists and turns, heroes and villains, and even comic relief. Photos & illustrations. An insightful, informative, and entertaining volume with contributions by Pulitzer Prize winning authors. The Story of America presents the history of the United States not as a parade of facts and dates but as a story with twists and turns, heroes and villains, lovers, saints -- and even some comic relief. With the help of more than two dozen eminent colleagues, many of them Pulitzer Prize-winners, Allen Weinstein and David Rubel give you American history from Columbus to the present not as you've studied it before, but as Americans lived it at the time. It's a fascinating way to understand how America became a world power and the ways in which the nation's past continue to impact its present. With hundreds of brilliant images, and prose as captivating as that of any good novel, The Story of America fills in the blanks in your education with tales and observations that delight as they inform.