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A Short History of the United States
From the Arrival of Native American Tribes to the Obama Presidency
ISBN: 9780060831455
(PB - E)
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A National Book Award winner fills a gap-- a short history of the U.S. for the general reader. Robert V. Remini's A Short History of the United States is an abbreviated, accessible, lively, and erudite narrative history that contains the essential facts about the discovery, settlement, growth, and development of the American nation and its institutions. Racing across the centuriesfrom the arrival and migration of Native Americans and the discovery of the New World by Europeans, the American Revolution, the Civil War, the Great Depression, up to the global conflicts of the twentieth and twenty-first centuriesit is a fascinating overview of a great nation's epochs and missteps, and a celebration of its achievements, its unique and enduring strengths, and its abiding commitment to individual freedoms.
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