| Seizing Destiny: How America Grew from Sea to Shining Sea Contributor(s): Kluger, Richard (Author) |
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ISBN: 0375712984 ISBN-13: 9780375712982 Publisher: Vintage OUR PRICE: $18.00 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2008 Annotation: From Pulitzer Prize-winning social historian Kluger comes this comprehensive and balanced chronicle of how the vast territory of the United States was assembled to accommodate the aspirations of its people--regardless of who objected. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - 19th Century - Political Science | History & Theory - General - Political Science | Imperialism |
| Dewey: 973 |
| Physical Information: 1.12" H x 5.3" W x 7.96" (1.04 lbs) 672 pages |
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| Publisher Description: Less than 100 years after its creation as a fragile republic, the United States more than quadrupled its size, making it the world's third largest nation. No other country or sovereign power had ever grown so big so fast or become so rich and so powerful. Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Richard Kluger chronicles this epic achievement in a compelling narrative, celebrating the energy, daring, and statecraft behind America's insatiable land hunger while exploring the moral lapses that accompanied it. Comprehensive and balanced, Seizing Destiny is a revelatory, often surprising reexamination of the nation's breathless expansion, dwelling on both great accomplishments and the American people's tendency to confuse opportunistic success with heaven-sent entitlement that came to be called manifest destiny. |