The Story of America
Essays on Origins
Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [2012]
Format: Book
Description: viii, 416 pages ; 23 cm
Harvard historian and New Yorker staff writer Jill Lepore investigates American origin stories -- from John Smith's account of the founding of Jamestown in 1607 to Barack Obama's 2009 inaugural address -- to show how American democracy is bound up with the history of print.
ISBN:
069115399X (alk. paper)
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HISTORY North Am. US Lep | Main (Downtown) | Third Level, Nonfiction | In |
HISTORY North Am. US Lep | Sandhills Indoors | Nonfiction | In |
Includes bibliographical references and index.