The Story of America

by Allen Weinstein, David Rubel

An insightful, informative, and entertaining volume with contributions by Pulitzer Prize winning authors. The Story of America presents the history of the United States not as a parade of facts and dates but as a story with twists and turns, heroes and villains, lovers, saints -- and even some comic relief. With the help of more than two dozen eminent colleagues, many of them Pulitzer Prize-winners, Allen Weinstein and David Rubel give you American history from Columbus to the present not as you've studied it before, but as Americans lived it at the time. It's a fascinating way to understand how America became a world power and the ways in which the nation's past continue to impact its present. With hundreds of brilliant images, and prose as captivating as that of any good novel, The Story of America fills in the blanks in your education with tales and observations that delight as they inform.

Genres: History, Nonfiction, American History, The United States Of America

672 pages, Hardcover

Published October 1, 2002

About the author

Allen Weinstein was a historian and educator who served as the Ninth Archivist of the United States. Weinstein was a cofounder of the National Endowment for Democracy in 1983. His work included research into Soviet espionage acitivties during the 1930s and 1940s, topics he covered in his books Perjury: The Hiss–Chambers Case and The Haunted Wood: Soviet Espionage in America—The Stalin Era. Weinstein passed away on June 18, 2015 after suffering a pout of pneumonia.

Reviews

[Jorge Chamorro · Rating 5 out of 5]

I loved this book. Well done, good graphics, a lot of details.

[Stacy Parrish · Rating 4 out of 5]

One can never know too much about the country they call their home. It is sad how little people actually know.

[Tom · Rating 5 out of 5]

An excellent set of views of American history. Very insightful and descriptive.