Eyewitness to America: 500 Years of America in the Words of Those Who Saw It Happen - Hardcover

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ISBN 10: 0679442243 ISBN 13: 9780679442240

Verlag: Pantheon Books, 1997

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Book by Colbert David

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Three hundred eyewitness accounts of great moments in American history include Langston Hughes on the Scottsboro boys, Jack London on the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, and other chronicles of the Salem witch trials, the Stonewall riot, the Scopes trial, and the bombing of Nagasaki. 40,000 first printing.

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rson complains about haggling over the Declaration of Independence ... Jack London guides us through the rubble of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake ... Langston Hughes visits the Scottsboro Boys on death row ... Andy Warhol paints the scene at Studio 54 ... John Seabrook receives e-mail from Bill Gates. Three hundred eyewitnesses -- some famous, some anonymous -- give their personal accounts of the great moments that make up our past, from Columbus to cyberspace, and infuse them with a freshness and urgency no historian can duplicate.

David Colbert has brought together a multitude of voices to create a singularly rich American narrative.  Here are the vivid impressions of men and women who were witnesses to and participants in these and other dramatic moments: the first colony in Virginia, the Salem witch trials, the Boston Tea Party, the Oklahoma land rush, the Scopes Trial, the bombing of Nagasaki, the lunch-counter sit-ins at the outset of the civil rights movement, New York

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• Verlag: Pantheon Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0679442243
• ISBN 13: 9780679442240
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Sprache: Englisch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 599
• Herausgeber: Colbert David