A Sense of History: The Best Writing from the Pages of American Heritage (1985)

by Byron Dobell (Introduction), American Heritage

Other authors: Louis Auchincloss (Contributor), Benjamin C. Bradlee (Contributor), Gerald Carson (Contributor), Bruce Catton (Contributor), Charles Cawthon (Contributor) — 50 more, Henry Steele Commager (Contributor), Malcolm Cowley (Contributor), Kenneth S. Davis (Contributor), Fred L. Engelman (Contributor), Paul Engle (Contributor), Thomas J. Fleming (Contributor), John Kenneth Galbraith (Contributor), Michael Gartner (Contributor), C. W. Gusewelle (Contributor), Emily Hahn (Contributor), Bray Hammond (Contributor), Walter Havighurst (Contributor), Robert L. Heilbroner (Contributor), Stephen Hess (Contributor), Edward Hoagland (Contributor), George Howe (Contributor), Oliver Jensen (Contributor), Walter Karp (Contributor), Joseph Kastner (Contributor), Alfred Kazin (Contributor), Larry L. King (Contributor), Frank Kintrea (Contributor), Spencer Klaw (Contributor), B. H. Liddell Hart (Contributor), Andy Logan (Contributor), John Lukacs (Contributor), William Manchester (Contributor), Daniel P. Mannix (Contributor), David McCullough (Contributor), Perry Miller (Contributor), Richard B. Morris (Contributor), Don Moser (Contributor), Allan Nevins (Contributor), Stephen B. Oates (Contributor), Richard Reinhardt (Contributor), Richard Rhodes (Contributor), Clinton Rossiter (Contributor), Hughes Rudd (Contributor), Francis Russell (Contributor), Robert Silverberg (Contributor), Gene Smith (Contributor), Richard F. Snow (Contributor), Marie St. John (Contributor), Wallace Stegner (Contributor), Janet Stevenson (Contributor), George R. Stewart (Contributor), Barbara W. Tuchman (Contributor), Dixon Wecter (Contributor), Bernard A. Weisberger (Contributor), Alexander Winston (Contributor)

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For thirty years American Heritage magazine has been telling America's story in fresh and vivid articles tht ahve come to represent the best of responsible popular history. In this fascinating book, the editors of "American Heritage" have combed through every issue to find the most entertaining and illuminating pieces. The result--by turns stirring, moving, funny, evocative, horrifying--is an unusually revealing informal history of American civilization from the first settlements to the close of the 20th century.

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For almost 50 years, American Heritage magazine has been telling America's story in fresh and vivid articles that have come to represent the best of responsible popular history. In this compre-hensive and informative book, the editors of American Heritage have combed through every issue to find the most entertaining and illuminating pieces. The result -- by turns stirring, moving, funny, evocative, horrifying -- is an unusually revealing informal history of American civilisation from the first settlements to the close of the twentieth century. "A Sense of History" proves that the best history is always the best reading. And the authors are numbered among the foremost historians, novelists, and public figures of recent years.

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Donated in memory of Dr. Paula Pucheu.

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