In the Time of the Americans - Couverture rigide

Fromkin, David

 
9780333638996: In the Time of the Americans
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ISBN 10 : 0333638999 ISBN 13 : 9780333638996
Editeur : Picador, 1995

Synopsis

Within a few years of each other in the 1880s five Americans were born who would play large parts in leading the way toward a new balance of global power - away from Europe in favour of the United States - over the course of the first and second world wars and beyond. These men had been born into a political world dominated by Europe. When their careers were complete no nation could match American influence politically, economically and militarily. This is a major work of popular history by the acclaimed author of A Peace to End All Peace. David Fromkin brings a sparkling fluency and storytelling instinct to the wonderfully large narrative and the characters who form its story - Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower, Marshall and MacArthur.

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Biographie de l'auteur

David Fromkin is University Professor and Professor of History at Boston University. He is the author of In the Time of the Americans, a History Book Club selection, and the national best-seller A Peace to End All Peace, which was a finalist for both the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize and was singled out by the New York Times Book Review as one of the thirteen “Best Books of the Year” in 1989. He lives in New York City.

Présentation de l'éditeur

Coming of age during World War I and attaining their finest hour in World War II and the Cold War, these men -- FDR, Truman, Eisenhower, Marshall, MacArthur -- transformed America from an isolated frontier nation into a global superpower. As he tells their stories, Fromkin, author of A Peace to End All Peace, shows how this generation not only made America great but largely succeeded in making it a force for good.

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Éditeur
Picador
Date d'édition
1995
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0333638999
ISBN 13 
9780333638996
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
640
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
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9780679767282: In The Time Of The Americans: FDR, Truman, Eisenhower, Marshall, MacArthur-The Generation That Changed America 's Role in the World

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0679767282 ISBN 13 :  9780679767282
Editeur : Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1996
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