American Century - Couverture souple

Evans, Harold

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0712665706 ISBN 13 : 9780712665704

Editeur : Pimlico, 2000

A propos du livre

Revue de presse

"Written in the liveliest historical prose I have come across in a long while...[illustrated with] a gallery of images, striking in its variety and pungency, representative without being hackneyed"
--David S. Reynolds, N.Y. Times Book Review

"This is history to enjoy, engagingly written, splendidly illustrated" --Neil Sheehan, author of A Bright and Shining Lie

"In a style at once trenchant and easygoing, Harold Evans leads us on a walk through the century now drawing to a close, taking us back over ground that far too many of us have let slip from our memories" --Shelby Foote, author of The Civil War

"An astute, evocative, challenging, wonderfully readable and gloriously illustrated history"        --Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.

"Major and inspiring" "-Vartan Gregorian

"A wide-ranging, politically detached view of the shaping events of the century. It is excellent prose with wonderful pictures. I much enjoyed it, as I think will all"        --John Kenneth Galbraith

"A book every family should have" --General Colin L. Powell, (Rtd.)

"A sumptuous memory-book of an astonishing time" --Geoffrey C. Ward
From the Hardcover edition.

Présentation de l'éditeur

This is the enthralling story of the last hundred years in the life of the United States, and the story of the twentieth century. In this century America did not simply become the largest economic and military power, send man to the moon or jeans to Red Square, but sustained Western civilization by acts of courage, generosity and vision unparalled in the history of man. The twentieth century is the American century by the power of an idea - the idea of freedom. The award-winning editor and journalist Harold Evans documents and celebrates these epic years in a manner brilliantly suited to the richness of the age. It is a newsreel of our times, vivid in its images, swift and compelling in its language, immensely stimulating in its commentaries. More than 900 original photographs, cartoons and illustrations, illuminate and illustrate the central politcal personalities and dramas, the triumph and the scandals. Here are the President, nineteen of them from a Civil War general to a movie star: muscle-flexing, idealistic, devious, smug, magnetic, saintly, brave and brilliant. Here are Al Capone and J. Edgar Hoover, Martin Luther King and the Ku Klux Klan. Here is America at peace in the twenties and at war with itself in the sixties.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Pimlico
• Date d'édition: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0712665706
• ISBN 13: 9780712665704
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 736