Alistair Cooke's America
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Knopf; [distributed by Random House]
Published: 1973
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9780394487267
Subjects: Histoire; History
Other titles: America.
Description: A tour of American life and history based on Cooke's television series on the nation's growth and development and illustrated with photographs, cartoons, prints, and paintings.
Table of contents: title: Prologue. A passage to America; title: The new-found land; title: A home away from home; title: Making revolution; title: Inventing a nation; title: Gone west; title: Firebell in the night; title: Domesticating a wilderness; title: Money on the land; title: The huddled masses; title: The promise fulfilled, the promise broken; title: The arsenal; title: Epilogue. The more abundant life.