America Reborn: A Twentieth-Century Narrative in Twenty-six Lives
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ISBN: 0375703640 / Publisher: Vintage, July 2001
Chronicles the American century through the eyes of twenty-six Americans, including Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, FDR, Richard Nixon, Duke Ellington, and John Steinbeck.
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In America Reborn, journalist and historian Martin Walker defines twentieth-century America through the portraits of twenty-six American individuals whose accomplishments, innovations and ideals propelled the United States to a position of global dominance.Here are the thoughts and beliefs of politicians and performers, thinkers and doers, capitalists and revolutionaries, immigrants and the native born. From Teddy Roosevelt's imperial ambitions to Bill Clinton's global vision; Emma Goldman’s radical ideals to William F. Buckley's profound conservatism; Albert Einstein's elegant theories to Katharine Hepburn's elegant delivery-the biographical essays that make up this narrative show us the variety of American archetypes and offer a vision of how strong individualism has always been the bedrock of (helped make up) the American character.
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