This book consists of a concise step-by-step survey of the great events, personalities and ideas symobilising American History, including:
- the arrival of the first (native) Americans
- the formation of the American colonies
- our country's road to independence through the Revolution
- westward expansion;
- slavery and the sectionalism of America
- the Civil War, reform and the immigrant inflow to America
- our darkest economic hour in the Depression and the promise of the New Deal
- all the World Wars, Vietnam and the "Cold" one
- the Civil Rights Movement
- the counter-culture and environmentalism
- the 80s new conservatism
- the space shuttle, and
- coming to grips with the new terror now facing our nation.
