Author: Ambrose, Stephen E.

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To America: Personal Reflections of an Historian

By: Ambrose, Stephen E.

Price: $7.50

Publisher: Simon & Schuster

Seller ID: 9780743252126

ISBN-13: 9780743252126

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: GOOD

Completed shortly before Ambrose's untimely death, To America is a very personal look at our nation's history through the eyes of one of the twentieth century's most influential historians. Ambrose roams the country's history, praising the men and women who made it exceptional. He considers Jefferson and Washington, who were progressive thinkers (while living a contradiction as slaveholders), and celebrates Lincoln and Roosevelt. He recounts Andrew Jackson's stunning defeat of a superior British force in the battle of New Orleans with a ragtag army in the War of 1812. He brings to life Lewis a...
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