To America: Personal Reflections of an Historian - Hardcover

Ambrose, Stephen E.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0743202759 ISBN 13: 9780743202756

Verlag: Simon & Schuster International, 2002

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Book by Ambrose Stephen E

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In To America, Stephen Ambrose, one of America's most influential historians, reflects on his long career as and explains what an historian's job is all about. When Stephen Ambrose became intersted in American history at age 18, there was much that America had done that made him proud, but there were some things he condemned as well, for instance slavery, the treatment of Native Americans, racist Southern politicians, the Robber Barons of the transcontinental railroad, the use of the atomic bomb. All through his undergraduate and graduate years from 1953-1960, Ambrose learned such ideas from his professors and believed and then taught them himself when he became a teacher of history in 1960. But after reasearching and writing about the Civil War in graduate school, Eisenhower in the 60s, Crazy Horse and Custer, Lewis and Clark, Nixon, the transcontinental railroad, and World War II over the next three decades, Ambrose's views on American history changed. In his new book the renowned historian celebrates America's spirit and confronts its failures and struggles. As always in his much acclaimed work, Ambrose brings alive the men and women, famous and not, who have peopled history and made the United States the superpower it is now.

Biografía del autor:

Stephen E. Ambrose, leading World War II historian, is the author of numerous books on history including the bestselling Band Of Brothers and definitive biographies on Eisenhower and Nixon. He is founder of the Eisenhower Center and the National D-Day Museum in New Orleans.

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• Verlag: Simon & Schuster International
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0743202759
• ISBN 13: 9780743202756
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 265