Book description
Hear the cannon roar at Valley Forge with George Washington, dance
the night away at a Chicago Speakeasy during Prohibition, take a
ringside seat for the gunfight at the OK Corral, ride Apollo 11 to the
moon, hear Martin Luther King's 'I Have a Dream' speech, join with
Harry S. Truman on the A-bomb deliberations, land with John Smith at
Virginia, ride against Custer at Little Horn, get on down to Jimi
Hendrix at Woodstock, march to 'The Grapes of Wrath' at Shiloh, work
your fingers to the bone at Henry Ford's car plant . . . this is
America - the beautiful, the powerful, the tragic, the glorious. The
Mammoth Book of How It Happened: America is the story of the making of
America in the very words of those who were there, from its
'discovery' by Christopher Columbus to George W. Bush's War Against
Terrorism. Composed of firsthand eye-witness accounts of the seminal
moments in US history, this is an intimate, revealing, insightful
guide to the greatest nation on earth. In five chronological sections,
this volume tracks the main phases of American history: Discovery,
including the exploration and settlement of America; Independence, the
Revolution and wars against British rule; Destiny, covering expansion
into the West and the split between North and South; Frontier,
including the settlement of the American West and the Indian Wars; and
finally Century, the 100 years that saw America becoming a superpower
on the world's political stage.
