Mammoth Book of Eyewitness America The History of the World's Most Powerful Nation

From America's "discovery" by Christopher Columbus to the tragic events of September 11, eyewitnesses include Ernest Hemingway, Thomas Jefferson, Mark Twain, John Steinbeck, Harry S. Truman, Malcolm X, Richard Nixon, Neil Armstrong, Norman Maller and Arthur Miller. Alongside the great names are the testimonies of ordinary people, telling what it was like to be a slave on a tobacco plantation, or to survive as a pioneer woman on the Great Plains. Intimate and revealing, these first-hand accounts make up a snapshot history of the greatest nation in the world today. Book jacket.Lewis, Jon is the author of 'Mammoth Book of Eyewitness America The History of the World's Most Powerful Nation' with ISBN 9780786711673 and ISBN 0786711671.