Martin Walker

America Reborn

A Twentieth-Century Narrative in Twenty-six Lives. Sprache: Englisch.

kartoniert , 418 Seiten

ISBN 0375703640

EAN 9780375703645

Veröffentlicht Juli 2001

Verlag/Hersteller Penguin Random House LLC

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Beschreibung

In America Reborn, journalist and historian Martin Walker defines twentieth-century America through the portraits of twenty-six American individuals whose accomplishments, innovations and ideals propelled the United States to a position of global dominance.
Here are the thoughts and beliefs of politicians and performers, thinkers and doers, capitalists and revolutionaries, immigrants and the native born. From Teddy Roosevelt's imperial ambitions to Bill Clinton's global vision; Emma Goldman's radical ideals to William F. Buckley's profound conservatism; Albert Einstein's elegant theories to Katharine Hepburn's elegant delivery-the biographical essays that make up this narrative show us the variety of American archetypes and offer a vision of how strong individualism has always been the bedrock of (helped make up) the American character.