The Story Of America

Freedom and Crisis From Settlement to Superpower.

'The Story Of America' presents the history of the United States not as an endless parade of specific facts but as a story with twists and turns, heroes and villains, saints and sinners, and even some comic relief. Historians Allen Weinstein and David Rubel narrate American history from Columbus to the present as Americans actually lived it (and not as you studied it in school).

Each of twenty-six chapters presents a particular historical episode - the Lewis and Clark expedition, for example, or the Cuban Missile Crisis - while exploring the most important themes in US history connected to that episode.

Also included are two dozen American Profiles written by other leading historians, many of them Pulitzer Prize winners.

With prose as captivating as that of a good novel and nearly a thousand photographs, 'The Story Of America' provides a continuously absorbing tour of the American past from its beginnings to the present.