DescriptionYour daughter asks about Appomattox. You say you had yours taken out. You need the facts. Fast. With this audio program, you can become an Instant Genius™ on the subject of U.S. wars before 1900 in about an hour. How exactly did America win its Independence? Over what was the Mexican war fought? What was the significance of the battles at Bull Run and Antietam? Learn the answers to these questions and many others when Instant Genius™ U.S. Wars Before 1900 clearly explains the wars the U.S. fought from the time before it was the U.S. up through the Spanish-American War of 1898.
DescriptionThe Golden Age is a vibrant tapestry of American political and cultural life from 1939 to 1954, when the epochal events of World War II and the Cold War transformed America, once and for all, for good or ill, from a republic into an empire. The sha…
DescriptionI wanted to drive the American roads at the century's end to look at the country again, from border to border and beach to beach... From earliest boyhood the American road has been a part of my life - central to it, I would even say. The ranch house in which I spent my first seven years sits only a mile from highway 281, the long road that traverses the central plains, all the way from Manitoba to the Mexican border..." - Larry McMurtry Author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Lonesome Dove, Larry McMurtry sets out in Roads on an automotive odyssey exploring America's highways and the culture that has grown up on either side of them. "My method, to the extent that I have one, is modeled on rereading; I want to reread some of the roads as I might a book, " he writes. Crisscrossing America in search of the present, the past and himself, McMurtry's route is also his destination.
DescriptionCharles Dickens made the first of 3 trips to the United States in 1842, when he was 30 and already famous, having written several novels including The Pickwick Papers . This book begins dockside in London and recounts his escapades throughout his journey in a witty and conversational style, with his characteristic irreverence. This work will make Americans acknowledge the debt owed by Twain, Mencken, and others to Dickens, the foremost man of letters of his day.
