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A Concise History Of American Republic
A CONCISE HISTORY
OF THE AMERICAN REPUBLIC An Abbreviated and Newly Revised Edition of The Greeth of the American Republic
SAMUEL ELIOT MORISON HENRY STEELE COMMAGER
WILLIAM E. LEUCHTENBURG
A Concise History of the American Republic is an abridged and thoroughly revised version of The Growth of the American Republic - a work which for nearly half a century has been regarded as one of the classics of American history. This new book is a compact and authoritative account that main tains the stylistic integrity of the parent volume, i while bringing the material fully up-to-date to re flect new insights derived from significant modern research.
A Concise History of the American Republic carries the story of American history from the advent of the first Indians on the North American Continent through 1976 with the observance of the Bicentennial of the American Republic. The book follows the grand tradition of narrative his
The late Samuel Eliot Morison was a scholar. widely recognized as America's foremost his torian. He taught with distinction at Harvard for four decades. Twice awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his biographies of Christopher Columbus and of John Paul Jones-he was the author of numer ous popular and scholarly works, including The European Discovery of America The Southern Voyages (Oxford, 1974) and The Northern Vay ages (Oxford, 1971), and the widely acclaimed one-volume study, The Oxford History of the American People (Oxford, 1963). A Concise Hi tory of the American Republic is the final book of Admiral Morison's distinguished career
tory in describing the dramatic events and person alities of centuries of the American experience The text is sharply analytical, and the authors offer fresh interpretations of subjects such as the Amer can party system, the Cold War, and the travail of the United States in the Watergate era. The book reveals a concern for social history, and reeds in detail the experience of women and of Nacks and other ethnic groups. A Concise History is us trated with 30 maps and over 250 paintings, car toons, and photographs, many of which have never before appeared in an American history book
A Concise History is available in cee-volume cloth and paper editions and in two separate pa perback volumes Volume 1, Te 1877. Voleme 2 Since 1885.
THE AUTHORS
Richard B. Morris) of the New American Nation Series, and has written and edited many books among them Documents of A No now in its ninth edition. Thende Pake The American Mind, Freedom and Orders Morty Rule and Minority Rights: The Search for Use ble Past Britain Through American Eyed The Empire of Reason
William E. Leuchtenberg is De Win Clare fessor of History at Columbia University where has been teaching since tesz No books The Devils at Prospe 2014932 Franklin D Roosevelt and the New Deal, 1920 for which he received both the Bancot and Parkman Pri and A Troubled Feat
Henry Steele Commager is Simpson Professor of History at Amherst College. He is co-editor (with
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