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Twenty Historians Bring to Life Dramatic Events That Changed America
Doubleday
October 2006
On Sale: October 3, 2006
352 pages ISBN: 0385516193 EAN: 9780385516198 Hardcover
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Historical | Non-Fiction
Twenty distinguished American historians vividly
reimagine twenty events of great drama and significance in
our country’s past.
“What is the scene or
incident in American history that you would like to have
witnessed—and why?” This is the thought-provoking question
that editor Byron Hollinshead posed to twenty of our finest
interpreters of American history with the invitation to
write a personal essay answering it. The result is I Wish
I’d Been There, a book that trains a lens on crucial
moments of our past and brings them to vivid life. With
these peerless scholars as their guides, readers will be
transported to the Salem witch trials, the Lewis and Clark
expedition, the raid on Harpers Ferry, the assassination of
Abraham Lincoln, the Scopes “monkey trial,” the beginnings
of the Vietnam War, the voting rights march to Selma, and
other turning points of our national drama. Contributors
include Mary Beth Norton, Joseph Ellis, Jay Winik, Carol
Berkin, Kevin Baker, Robert Cowley, Carolyn Gilman, Geoffrey
Ward, Robert Dallek, and William Leuchtenburg, among other
luminaries of the historical profession. I Wish I’d
Been There is a marvelous concept, wonderfully and
imaginatively executed. The result is an American pageant of
character and event that will attract and delight readers of
history.
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