America - John Grafton
a history of the first 500 years
KORTE INHOUD
Here is a historical portrait of America in the form of a mosaic, each piece significant in the development of the national image, with 350 photos, Engravings, Paintings, Lithographs and Drawings.
After all, what is the American experience but the sum of parts - Puritans emigrating from religious persecution; minute-men preparing to defend their homes and liberty at a moment's notice; wagon trains moving slowly into a thousand sunsets; canals and railroads and ships and automobiles and planes and moon rockets, all being built by countles American hands under the direction of American entrepereneurs who came to this land to carve out for themselves - and the rest of us - a better life. Men and women who put aside their allegiance to former homelands and ways to form a melting pot bonded by a single language and vision.
Heroes and heroines - and villains - of every race and creed fill the American mosaic. Many are well remembered but many more have been forgotten. Author John Grafton has included and described as...
After all, what is the American experience but the sum of parts - Puritans emigrating from religious persecution; minute-men preparing to defend their homes and liberty at a moment's notice; wagon trains moving slowly into a thousand sunsets; canals and railroads and ships and automobiles and planes and moon rockets, all being built by countles American hands under the direction of American entrepereneurs who came to this land to carve out for themselves - and the rest of us - a better life. Men and women who put aside their allegiance to former homelands and ways to form a melting pot bonded by a single language and vision.
Heroes and heroines - and villains - of every race and creed fill the American mosaic. Many are well remembered but many more have been forgotten. Author John Grafton has included and described as...
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