About this title: Culled from 500 years of diaries and memoirs, letters and reportage, this book pieces together a fascinating montage of our nation that offers new perspectives on familiar and not-so-familiar events--from the Boston Tea Party to the L.A. riots, from Babe Ruth to Beatlemania.
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Date Published: 1998
ISBN-13:9780679767244ISBN:067976724X
Description: Good. Book may have underlining, highlighting, or notes throughout All orders processed within 2 business days. Ships from Foxboro MA. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Date Published: 1998-07-28
ISBN-13:9780679767244ISBN:067976724X
Description: Very Good in None jacket. Clean trade paperback with light cover wear, and some wrinkled page corners in the lower back. Tight square binding with no spine creases. 1998 Vintage, New York, stated First Vintage Edition with full number line. Cover illustration a collage of photos. xxxii + 688 pages including index. read more
Description: Good; 1998. 067976724x. Good used copy with mild edge, corner tip wear and edge discoloration from handling/storage. Unmarked.; Softcover; Vintage Books/Random House; NY; First Printing; Small 8vo 7½"-8" tall; 688 pages. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Vintage Books
Date Published: 1998-07-01
ISBN-13:9780679767244ISBN:067976724X
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Date Published: 1998
ISBN-13:9780679767244ISBN:067976724X
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Vintage
Date Published: 1998-07-28
ISBN-13:9780679767244ISBN:067976724X
Description: LIKE NEW SOFTCOVER. Size: trade paperback; David Colbert has brought together a rich assembly of voices, offering first-hand accounts of American history spanning almost exactly 500 years, from Christopher Columbus' first encounter with Taino tribesmen in 1492 to the final public display of the AIDS Memorial Quilt at the Washington Mall. At that same mall, in 1963, James Reston and Malcolm X came away with two radically different views of Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech. For ... read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Random House Inc
Date Published: 1998
ISBN-13:9780679767244ISBN:067976724X
Description: New. Thomas Jefferson complains about haggling over the Declaration of Independence...Jack London guides us through the rubble of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake...Langston Hughes visits the Scottsboro Boys on death row...Andy Warhol paints the sc... read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Random House Inc
Date Published: 1998
ISBN-13:9780679767244ISBN:067976724X
Description: New. Hundreds of eyewitness accounts of great moments in American history include Langston Hughes on the Scottsboro boys, Jack London on the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, and other chronicles of the Salem witch trials and the Scopes trial. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Pantheon
Date Published: 1997
Description: New in new jacket. First Edition. Pristine condition. At McKenzie Michaels we strive to meet your needs and ship within 24 business hours by media mail. We are very competitive in pricing and confirm every order. SATISFACTION GUARANTEED. read more
"This book was recommended to me by a high school history teacher (not mine! that was many years ago...) based on a casual comment I made about wishing I knew more about a broader section of American History. It is a collection of tasty historical vignettes, written from many different perspectives. It is sort of like a box of chocolates, you never know what you are going to get, but the experience of discovering what's inside each piece is worth it. Each of the short sections is about a specific historical event and is based on a letter, article, memoir or interview -- some sort of "eyewitness" account of the happening. I am sure that even a true history buff will learn something new about our past based on the accounts in this book. I pick it up every now and then and re-read another few sections. While the vignettes are chronological, you can really read any section independently."
"Edited by David Colbert, Eyewitness to America is a comprehensive compilation of crucial moments and personalities in 500 years of American history, as told by the people who had first-hand experiences. The various primary sources used here range from John Smith's account of Jamestown and Pocahontas, to President Truman's perspective on his firing of MacArthur. There is also a great coverage of popular history, including first-hand encounters with Elvis, Tom Wolfe's coverage of the Beatles, Ritchie Havens on Woodstock, and John Houseman on The War of the Worlds mix-up. Each account, which averages about 2-6 pages, is an interesting and brief read into historical events from the people that knew them best. With a thorough index, comprehensive notes on primary sources, and an overall appealing format, Eyewitness to America is perfect for American history enthusiasts as well as anyone who is even mildly interested in history in general. It is an engaging, entertaining, and highly inviting book to flip through that leaves little out and is a great presentation of the diversity in American history."
"Dad gave me this book one year. I read it all the time. It is basically eyewitness accounts from American history with a little bit of explanation. Stuff from Plymouth rock, to Triangle Shirt co fire disaster to exchanging emails with Bill Gates."
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