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The Men Who United the States
Author | : Simon Winchester |
Publsiher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 512 |
Release | : 2013-10-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780062079626 |
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Simon Winchester, the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of Atlantic and The Professor and the Madman, delivers his first book about America: a fascinating popular history that illuminates the men who toiled fearlessly to discover, connect, and bond the citizenry and geography of the U.S.A. from its beginnings. How did America become “one nation, indivisible”? What unified a growing number of disparate states into the modern country we recognize today? To answer these questions, Winchester follows in the footsteps of America’s most essential explorers, thinkers, and innovators, such as Lewis and Clark and the leaders of the Great Surveys; the builders of the first transcontinental telegraph and the powerful civil engineer behind the Interstate Highway System. He treks vast swaths of territory, from Pittsburgh to Portland, Rochester to San Francisco, Seattle to Anchorage, introducing the fascinating people who played a pivotal role in creating today’s United States. Throughout, he ponders whether the historic work of uniting the States has succeeded, and to what degree. Featuring 32 illustrations throughout the text, The Men Who United the States is a fresh look at the way in which the most powerful nation on earth came together.
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Author | : Everest Media, |
Publsiher | : Everest Media LLC |
Total Pages | : 55 |
Release | : 2022-04-30T22:59:00Z |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781669398059 |
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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 Jefferson had a lifelong fascination with trees. He thought of them as his favorite type of plants, and he went to great effort and expense to place those he liked best around Monticello. #2 Monticello faced west, and if you looked straight across the estate, you could see all the way to the Blue Ridge Mountains. But today, this is no longer the case. The trees have grown high, and someone sitting where the president liked to take his evening ease would not be able to see in the summer his blue remembered hills. #3 Thomas Jefferson was a man with many contradictions, but his fascination with the American West was not one of them. He was obsessively interested in how the vast majority of America’s land could be apportioned among its growing population. #4 The American settlers who lived beyond the Appalachians were initially cut off from the American mainstream, and there was talk of secession. But they were the first beneficiaries of one of Jefferson’s great ideas: the right to own land.
A Nation of Counterfeiters
Author | : Stephen Mihm |
Publsiher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 470 |
Release | : 2009-06-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780674041011 |
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Prior to the Civil War, the United States did not have a single, national currency. Counterfeiters flourished amid this anarchy, putting vast quantities of bogus bills into circulation. Their success, Mihm reveals, is more than an entertaining tale of criminal enterprise: it is the story of the rise of a country defined by freewheeling capitalism and little government control. Mihm shows how eventually the older monetary system was dismantled, along with the counterfeit economy it sustained.
The Man in the High Castle
Author | : Philip K. Dick |
Publsiher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 291 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780547572482 |
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Slavery is back. America, 1962. Having lost a war, America finds itself under Nazi Germany and Japan occupation. A few Jews still live under assumed names. The 'I Ching' is prevalent in San Francisco. Science fiction meets serious ideas in this take on a possible alternate history.
The Men Who Stare at Goats
Author | : Jon Ronson |
Publsiher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 2011-06-28 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 9781451665970 |
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Now a major film, starring George Clooney, Ewan McGregor, and Jeff Bridges, this New York Times bestseller is a disturbing and often hilarious look at the U.S. military's long flirtation with the paranormal—and the psy-op soldiers that are still fighting the battle. Bizarre military history: In 1979, a crack commando unit was established by the most gifted minds within the U.S. Army. Defying all known laws of physics and accepted military practice, they believed that a soldier could adopt the cloak of invisibility, pass cleanly through walls, and—perhaps most chillingly—kill goats just by staring at them. They were the First Earth Battalion, entrusted with defending America from all known adversaries. And they really weren’t joking. What’s more, they’re back—and they’re fighting the War on Terror. An uproarious exploration of American military paranoia: With investigations ranging from the mysterious “Goat Lab,” to Uri Geller’s covert psychic work with the CIA, to the increasingly bizarre role played by a succession of U.S. presidents, this might just be the funniest, most unsettling book you will ever read—if only because it is all true and is still happening today.
Signing Their Rights Away
Author | : Denise Kiernan,Joseph D'Agnese |
Publsiher | : Quirk Books |
Total Pages | : 263 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781594745201 |
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Book jacket unfolds to reveal a full-color reproduction of the U.S. Constitution.
Common Men in the War for the Common Man
Author | : Dr. Verel R. Salmon |
Publsiher | : Xlibris Corporation |
Total Pages | : 810 |
Release | : 2013-02-21 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781477106891 |
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This is the never before told story of hundreds of Americans who went to war in defense of their beliefs, to seek adventure and to see some of the world beyond their rural Pennsylvania neighborhoods. Developed largely in the words of the soldiers of the 145th Pennsylvania Infantry, Common Men highlights some of the men's lives before the war and then carries the reader through trials and triumphs from enlistment, Jubilant send-off, action from Antietam through Gettysburg and casualty, Democracy and the Union are sustained through the actions of common men, men not always given the best of orders.
The Perfect Storm A True Story of Men Against the Sea
Author | : Sebastian Junger |
Publsiher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 1997-05-17 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 039307661X |
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"There is nothing imaginary about Junger's book; it is all terrifyingly, awesomely real." —Los Angeles Times It was the storm of the century, boasting waves over one hundred feet high—a tempest created by so rare a combination of factors that meteorologists deemed it "the perfect storm." In a book that has become a classic, Sebastian Junger explores the history of the fishing industry, the science of storms, and the candid accounts of the people whose lives the storm touched. The Perfect Storm is a real-life thriller that makes us feel like we've been caught, helpless, in the grip of a force of nature beyond our understanding or control. Winner of the American Library Association's 1998 Alex Award.