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To America : personal reflections of an historian

Author: Stephen E Ambrose
Publisher: New York : Simon & Schuster, ©2002.
Edition/Format:   Book : Biography : Juvenile audience : EnglishView all editions and formats
Summary:
The popular historian shares his views of his own life and on the history of America, in a series of reflections on the Founding Fathers, Native Americans, Theodore Roosevelt, World War II, civil rights, Vietnam, and the writing of history.
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Genre/Form: Biography
Named Person: Stephen E Ambrose
Material Type: Biography, Juvenile audience, Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Stephen E Ambrose
ISBN: 0743202759 9780743202756
OCLC Number: 50754782
Notes: Includes index.
Description: xvi, 265 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: The Founding Fathers --
The Battle of New Orleans --
The Indian country --
The transcontinental railroad --
Grant and reconstruction --
Theodore Roosevelt and the beginning of the American century --
Democracy, Eisenhower, and the war in Europe --
The war in the Pacific --
The legacy of World War II --
Vietnam --
Writing in and about America --
War stories: Crazy Horse and Custer and Pegasus Bridge --
Writing about Nixon --
Writing about men in action, 1992-2001 --
The National D-Day Museum --
American racism --
Women's rights and immigration --
The United States and nation building --
Nothing like it in the world.
Responsibility: Stephen E. Ambrose.
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Abstract:

The popular historian shares his views of his own life and on the history of America, in a series of reflections on the Founding Fathers, Native Americans, Theodore Roosevelt, World War II, civil rights, Vietnam, and the writing of history.

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