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For more than four decades, American Heritage's reputation for engaging, impeccably researched historical journalism has made it one of the most respected names in American story-telling. In that same tradition of quality comes the American Heritage History of the United States, an entirely new work of history which is a worthy successor to the American Heritage New History of the Civil War and the American Heritage New History of World War II.In this rich and inspiring book, acclaimed historian Douglas Brinkley takes us on the incredible journey of the United States--a nation formed from a vast wilderness of mountains and streams on whose fringes a few small colonies made a bold cast at freedom, then burgeoned into an expanding democracy, and ultimately flourished as a world power. From the first primitive maps outlining a New World to the faded daguerreotypes of young men in uniforms standing beside Confederate flags; to pictures of hopeful immigrant families arriving at Ellis Island; to the stirring photographs of Civil Rights marchers; to the terrible images of the Oklahoma City Federal Building bombing--the history of America offers a stunning album of people and events.

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Library Journal Review

Distinguished Professor of History and director of the Eisenhower Center at the University of New Orleans, Brinkley here gives America a good going-over. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

Booklist Review

The idea of the lavishly illustrated U.S. history book seems to attract authors with fame and media power. The recent books of Harold Evans (The American Century [BKL Ag 98]) and Peter Jennings (The Century [BKL O 1 98]) exemplify the type. It comes as a vindication of cornball American values, then, when a real historian, who has worked hard to write several works, is offered the high-profile chance to write American Heritage's U.S. history volume. A specialist on the post^-World War II period who has written works about James Forrestal, the UN, and Jimmy Carter, Brinkley faces choices in the daunting task of narrowing the whole shebang of the American story. How much Civil War to include? How much cultural history? Brinkley defends his selections by hewing to his "main objective" of explaining America's outstanding characteristic--its economic dynamism. What Americans were doing to make money, and live better, infuses all his chapters and many hundreds of the illustrations. Trading and slaving in colonial times, laying railroads in antebellum days, unleashing capitalism in the Gilded Age, restraining it in the Progressive Era, then creating the consumer society in the twentieth century--Brinkley's Americans are part dealmakers and part democrats and idealists. Brinkley bestows the politicians with the general reputations they've acquired--no revisionism there--but his synthesizing skill will interest even those overly familiar with the presidents. A gracefully written overview that will serve a library for years, not just for one holiday season. --Gilbert Taylor