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The great republic : a history of America / Sir Winston Churchill ; edited by Winston S. Churchill

Author
Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965
Published
New York : Random House, [1999]
Copyright Date
©1999
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Description
xxii, 454 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Additional Creators
Churchill, Winston S. (Winston Spencer), 1940-2010

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Contents
From Colonial Beginnings to World Power -- The Round World -- Rivalry for the New World -- The Mayflower -- The Thirteen Colonies -- The First "World War" -- The Quarrel with Britain -- The war of Independence -- The United States -- The American Constitution -- Washington, Adams and Jefferson -- The War of 1812 -- Canada: The Birth of a Nation -- American Epic -- Slavery and Secession -- The Union in Danger -- The Campaign Against Richmond -- Lee and McClellan -- Chancellorsville and Gettysburg -- The Victory of the Union -- American "Reconstruction" -- America as a World-Power -- Old Battlefields of Virginia -- If Lee had Not Won the Battle of Gettysburg -- America in the Twentieth Century -- The Chicago Scandals -- Prohibition -- 1929: Speculation Fever -- California -- Land of Corn and Lobsters -- Roosevelt from Afar -- Can America Keep Out of War? -- The Union of the English-Speaking Peoples -- Defence of Freedom and Peace -- "Give Us the Tools" -- "Westward, Look, the Land is Bright" -- The Atlantic Charter -- The White House Christmas Tree -- "A Long Hard War" -- "Heavier Work Lies Ahead" -- Anglo-American Unity -- The Death of President Roosevelt -- Tribute to General Eisenhower -- The Atomic Bomb -- The Sinews of Peace -- If I were an American -- The North Atlantic Treaty -- "We Must Not Lost Hope" -- Honorary United States Citizenship -- America's English Heritage -- The English Common Law -- Magna Carta -- The Mother of Parliaments.
Summary
"'The Great Republic' is Sir Winston Churchill's personal vision of American history, from the arrival of the first European settlers to the dawn of the Cold War, edited by his grandson, the historian and journalist Winston S. Churchill. The book is a magnificent retelling of the American story, including some of the best short histories of the Revolutionary War and the Civil War ever written. The bulk of this book, America's history up to the twentieth century; has until now been found only within Churchill's much longer four-volume 'A History of the English-Speaking Peoples, for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1953. The chapters on America from that larger work have been knit together into a whole, and to them Winston S. Churchill has added essays and speeches of his grandfather's, many never before published in bok form, to bring the book up to the mid-twentieth century ..."
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ISBN
037550320X (hc ; alk. paper)
9780375503207 (hc ; alk. paper)
Collection
8th Air Force Collection.
Note
HCLA copy: Signed by author.
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Source of Acquisition
HCLA copy: Gift of George Middlemas; 2017.
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