داستان آمریکا: آزادی و بحران از استقرار تا ابرقدرت

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. Exploration and conquest -- The plantation colonies -- Puritan New England -- The American Revolution -- The New Republic -- Jeffersonian America -- Jacksonian America -- Slavery in the Antebellum South -- Social reform in Antebellum America -- The deepening sectional conflict -- The road to Civil War -- Civil War and Reconstruction -- The American West -- The Gilded Age -- The crisis of the 1890s -- Becoming a world power -- The Progressive Era -- The New Era -- The New Deal -- World War II --The Cold War at home -- Pax Americana -- The Sixties -- The Seventies -- The end of the Cold War -- A new millennium Ranging from pre-Columbian times to the present day, this dramatic, richly illustrated chronicle of America traces the nation's history through a series of seminal events that changed the course of history and offers close-up profiles of key figures who played a vital role in shaping our nation Chronicles American history through discussions of twenty-six important events, from the Spanish conquest to the September 11 attacks, and includes profiles of such significant figures as Squanto, Samuel Adams, Harriet Tubman, and Jimmy Carter