num_pages: 599
description: Three hundred eyewitnesses--some famous, some anonymous--give their personal accounts of the great moments that make up our past, infusing them with a freshness and urgency no historian can duplicate. With unparalleled and thrilling immediacy these excerpts from diaries, private letters, memoirs, and newspapers paint a fascinating picture of the evolving drama of American life.
language: English
title: Eyewitness to America: 500 Years of America in the Words of Those Who Saw It Happen
titlecomplete: Eyewitness to America: 500 Years of America in the Words of Those Who Saw It Happen
genres: History, Reference, American History, Nonfiction, School
ratings_count: 123
publisher: Pantheon Books