Product Description
Douglas Brinkley takes us on the incredible journey of the United States—a nation formed from a vast countryside on whose fringes thirteen small British colonies fought for their freedom, then established a democratic nation that spanned the continent, and went on to become a world power. This book will be treasured by anyone interested in the story of America.
Author Bio
Douglas Brinkley is currently a Professor of History at Rice University and a Fellow at the James Baker III Institute of Public Policy. He completed his bachelor's degree at Ohio State University and received his doctorate in U.S. Diplomatic History from Georgetown University in 1989. Five of his books have been selected as
New York Times Notable Books of the Year. Douglas won the Benjamin Franklin Award for
The American Heritage History of the United States (1998) and the Theodore and Franklin Roosevelt Naval History Prize for
Driven Patriot (1993). He was awarded the
Business Week Book of the Year Award for
Wheels for the World and was also named 2004 Humanist of the Year by the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities.
Douglas is contributing editor for
Vanity Fair,
Los Angeles Times Book Review, and
American Heritage. He is a frequent contributor to the
New York Times,
The New Yorker, and the
Atlantic Monthly. He lives in Austin and Houston, Texas with his wife and three children.
