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Title
The American future : a history
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Published
New York : HarperCollins, c2009.
Description
xii, 400 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), ports. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
Call Number
973.93 S299 2009
System Control No.
(OCoLC)320953093
Note
"First published in Great Britain in 2008 by The Bodley Head"--T.p. verso.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [371]-378) and index.
Contents: Prologue : Iowa waltz -- Part I : American war -- Veterans Day : 11 November 2007 -- The fight for the citadel : soldiering and the Founding Fathers -- The Drop Zone Cafe, San Antonio, Texas, 3 March 2008 -- The trials of the Roman -- Taking sides -- Father and son -- The quartermaster general 1861-1864 -- John Rodgers Meigs, the Shenandoah Valley, summer and fall 1864 -- Montgomery Meigs and Louisa Rodgers Meigs, October 1864-December 1865 -- Washington D.C., February 2008 -- Hamilton resurrexit -- American war : Rohrbach-lès-Bitche, the Maginot Line near Metz, 10 December 1944 -- Part II : American fervor -- Atlantic City, August 1964 -- Saved -- Raven, Virginia, 2008 -- Providence -- "Whereas Almighty God hath created the mind free--" -- National sin -- Jarena Lee -- The sovereignty of the voice -- Easter Sunday, 2008, Ebenezer Baptist Church, Atlanta -- Great white hopes? -- Ruleville, Mississippi, 31 August 1962 -- Part III : What is an American? -- Twilight, Downing Street, June 2008 -- Citizen Heartbreak : France, August 1794 -- The German threat -- The Chicken Club, south Texas, July 2008 -- The immigrant problem in Texas -- The German threat - again -- The importance of Fred Bee -- Grace under pressure -- Jefferson's Koran -- Part IV : American plenty -- Running on empty? -- Strawberry fields, 1775 -- White Path, 1801-1823 -- 1893 -- The church of irrigation -- Ghost house -- Roll up that lawn -- Windmills -- Epilogue: The impotent angel?
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [371]-378) and index.
Contents: Prologue : Iowa waltz -- Part I : American war -- Veterans Day : 11 November 2007 -- The fight for the citadel : soldiering and the Founding Fathers -- The Drop Zone Cafe, San Antonio, Texas, 3 March 2008 -- The trials of the Roman -- Taking sides -- Father and son -- The quartermaster general 1861-1864 -- John Rodgers Meigs, the Shenandoah Valley, summer and fall 1864 -- Montgomery Meigs and Louisa Rodgers Meigs, October 1864-December 1865 -- Washington D.C., February 2008 -- Hamilton resurrexit -- American war : Rohrbach-lès-Bitche, the Maginot Line near Metz, 10 December 1944 -- Part II : American fervor -- Atlantic City, August 1964 -- Saved -- Raven, Virginia, 2008 -- Providence -- "Whereas Almighty God hath created the mind free--" -- National sin -- Jarena Lee -- The sovereignty of the voice -- Easter Sunday, 2008, Ebenezer Baptist Church, Atlanta -- Great white hopes? -- Ruleville, Mississippi, 31 August 1962 -- Part III : What is an American? -- Twilight, Downing Street, June 2008 -- Citizen Heartbreak : France, August 1794 -- The German threat -- The Chicken Club, south Texas, July 2008 -- The immigrant problem in Texas -- The German threat - again -- The importance of Fred Bee -- Grace under pressure -- Jefferson's Koran -- Part IV : American plenty -- Running on empty? -- Strawberry fields, 1775 -- White Path, 1801-1823 -- 1893 -- The church of irrigation -- Ghost house -- Roll up that lawn -- Windmills -- Epilogue: The impotent angel?
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