Seizing destiny
Subtitle: how America grew from sea to shining sea
By: by Richard Kluger.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: A.A. Knopf
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Subjects: United States -- Territorial expansion; United States -- History; United States -- Foreign relations
Table of contents: title: An empty sack cannot stand upright (1500-1750); title: The poor Richards arise (1750-1776); title: Thinking large (1776-1782); title: The kings outfoxed (1782-1783); title: Owning the wilderness (1783-1800); title: For a nice little kingdom in Tuscany (1800-1803); title: Everything he does is rapid as lightning (1803); title: From motives of purest patriotism (1803-1823); title: Big drunk wins the day (1820-1836); title: Poking John Bull in the eye (1837-1846); title: The lost virtue of their better days (1846-1850); title: A wolf couldn't make a living on it (1850-1854); title: The great white elephant sale (1854-1867); title: Treachery in the tropics (1869-1902); title: The so-called mandate of mankind (1903-1999).