Mine Eyes Have Seen: A First-Person History of the Events That Shaped America
Goldstein (America at D-Day, LJ 6/1/94) presents here first-person accounts of famous and obscure events in history written by ordinary people who were eyewitnesses. The accounts range from Giovanni Verrazano's description of the New World to nurse Bobby Johnson's story of the Oklahoma City bombing. The work concludes with brief glimpses of the end of the 1996 presidential campaign. Arranged chronologically, each section begins with historical background and a brief summary of each writer's role. The accounts vary in length from one paragraph to several pages. Events span the triumphant to the tragic, the important to the merely interesting. While some readers may quarrel with the author's choices, history teachers will find this a gold mine for class discussions and history buffs will enjoy dipping into it. For all public and academic libraries.?Grant A. Fredericksen, Illinois Prairie Dist. P.L., MetamoraCopyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.