Ambrose, Stephen E.

To America : personal reflections of an historian / Stephen E. Ambrose. - New York : Simon & Schuster, 2002. - xvi, 265 p. ; 24 cm.

Includes index.

Preface: Storytelling -- 1. The Founding Fathers -- 2. The Battle of New Orleans -- 3. The Indian Country -- 4. The Transcontinental Railroad -- 5. Grant and Reconstruction -- 6. Theodore Roosevelt and the Beginning of the American Century -- 7. Democracy, Eisenhower, and the War in Europe -- 8. The War in the Pacific -- 9. The Legacy of World War II -- 10. Vietnam -- 11. Writing in and About America -- 12. War Stories: Crazy Horse and Custer and Pegasus Bridge -- 13. Writing About Nixon -- 14. Writing About Men in Action, 1992-2001 -- 15. The National D-Day Museum -- 16. American Racism -- 17. Women's Rights and Immigration -- 18. The United States and Nation Building -- 19. Nothing Like It in the World.

0743202759


Ambrose, Stephen E.


Historians--United States--Biography.


United States--History.
United States--Biography.
United States--Historiography.

E178.6

973