The American Heritage Reader
by Bruce Catton, George R. Stewart, Clay Perry, William Brandon, Alvin F. Harlow, Duncan Emrich, Victor Wolfgang von Hagen, Clifford Dowdey, Arnold Whitridge, Fairfax Davis Downey, Alan Villiers, Boyd B. Stutler, Dorothie Bobbe, Rudolph Marx, Charles H.P. Copeland, Willard King, Eugene Kingman, William H. Kearns Jr., Beverley H. Britton, Lynn Warren Turner, Clinton L. Rossiter
- Tytuł oryginalny
- Atomic Habits
- Język oryginału
- Angielski
- Liczba stron
- 320
- Wydawnictwo
- Avery
O tej książce
Half a billion people made America what it is, and all but a comparative handful have passed quietly and anonymously into history. Those we still call by name were men of talent - even greatness - whose public deeds altered their country's future.But even great men may have an obscure side that the world sees little of. Who can be sure that Hamilton would have passed his name to posterity if his shadowed, bitter boyhood had been different? Lincoln's greatness was resent even when he rode the backwoods circuit as a country lawyer. Washington was plagued buy ill health all his mature years. The Antarctic may be our last frontier: who knows that our first claim to it was staked in 1820 by a New England skipper barely out of his teens?The American Heritage Reader brings you the richness of our past by way of fresh, little-used paths. It brings you living history.