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American Heritage History of the United States

Audiobook
Nonfiction: History
Unabridged   23.25 hour(s)
Publication date: 05/30/2017

American Heritage History of the United States

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Digital Download ISBN:9781681685397

Summary

In this rich and inspiring book, acclaimed historian Douglas Brinkley takes us on the incredible journey of the United States.

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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.