To America
Subtitle: personal reflections of an historian
By: Stephen E. Ambrose
Edition: 1st Simon & Schuster trade pbk. ed.
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 265
ISBN-13: 9780743252126
Subjects: Historiography; Biography; Historians; History
Description: Stephen Ambrose reflects on his long career as a historian and shares stories of some of his most admired, and a few of his least favorite, Americans from throughout history.
Notes: Includes index.

"The New York Times bestseller"--Cover.
Table of contents: title: The Founding Fathers --; title: The Battle of New Orleans --; title: The Indian country --; title: The transcontinental railroad --; title: Grant and reconstruction --; title: Theodore Roosevelt and the beginning of the American century --; title: Democracy, Eisenhower, and the war in Europe --; title: The war in the Pacific --; title: The legacy of World War II --; title: Vietnam --; title: Writing in and about America --; title: War stories: Crazy Horse and Custer and Pegasus Bridge --; title: Writing about Nixon --; title: Writing about men in action, 1992-2001 --; title: The National D-Day Museum --; title: American racism --; title: Women's rights and immigration --; title: The United States and nation building --; title: Nothing like it in the world.