A History of the American People

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A HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE __ Paul Johnson `Be not afraid of greatness' Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, II, v HarperCollins Pu ...

This book was originally published in Great Britain in 19 97 by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. A HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. Cop ...

This book is dedicated to the people of America-strong, outspoken, intense in their convictions, sometimes wrong-headed but alwa ...

CONTENTS Preface PART ONE ‘A City on a Hill’ Colonial America, 1580- Europe and the Transatlantic Adventure Ralegh, the Proto-Am ...

Central Importance of John Marshall Jefferson's Ambivalent Rule and Character The Louisiana Purchase Madison's Blunders and Thei ...

PART FIVE Huddled Masses and Crosses of Gold Industrial America, 1870- Modern America and Its Aging Process Mass-Immigration and ...

PREFACE This work is a labor of love. When I was a little boy, my parents and elder sisters taught me a great deal of Greek, Rom ...

Canfield Jr of HarperCollins, encouraged me warmly. So this project was born, out of enthusiasm and excitement, and now, after m ...

PART ONE ‘A City on a Hill’ Colonial America, 1580 - ...

The creation of the United States of America is the greatest of all human adventures. No other national story holds such tremend ...

bringing into existence a new world, though the phrase itself did not pass into common currency until 1494. These early settlers ...

Profiting from the experience of the Canaries in using the North Atlantic weather system, Christopher Columbus made landfall in ...

barley, and the ploughs to make it possible to grow them; sugarcanes and vineyards; above all, a variety of livestock. The Ameri ...

Tome, and the rest to America. By this date, indeed, four out of five slaves were heading for the New World." It is important to ...

Into the vacuum left by the discomfiture of French Protestantism stepped the English, and it from their appearance on the scene ...

on deck, a typical Elizabethan touch." So Ralegh took his place and immediately secured a new charter from the Queen to found a ...

training-ground both in suppressing and uprooting an alien race and culture, and in settling conquered lands and building towns. ...

America. The sea coasts of Virginia,' Hariot wrote,are full of islands whereby the entrance into the main land is hard to find. ...

Fernandez, master of the fleet, was anxious to engage in piracy and so quarreled with White. Roanoke was reached, and on August ...