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Seizing destiny : how America grew from sea to shining sea
- Title
- Seizing destiny : how America grew from sea to shining sea / Richard Kluger.
- Author
- Kluger, Richard.
- Publication
- New York : A.A. Knopf, 2007.
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Details
- Description
- xviii, 649 p.; 25 cm.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [609]-624) and index.
- Contents
- An empty sack cannot stand upright (1500-1750) -- The poor Richards arise (1750-1776) -- Thinking large (1776-1782) -- The kings outfoxed (1782-1783) -- Owning the wilderness (1783-1800) -- For a nice little kingdom in Tuscany (1800-1803) -- Everything he does is rapid as lightning (1803) -- From motives of purest patriotism (1803-1823) -- Big drunk wins the day (1820-1836) -- Poking John Bull in the eye (1836-1847) -- The lost virtue of their better days (1846-1850) -- A wolf couldn't make a living on it (1850-1854) -- The great white elephant sale (1854-1867) -- Treachery in the tropics (1869-1902) -- The so-called mandate of mankind (1903-1999).
- Call Number
- ICI 07-5463
- ISBN
- 0375413413
- 9780375413414
- LCCN
- 2006037733
- OCLC
- 76792001
- vendorOCM76792001
- Author
- Kluger, Richard.
- Title
- Seizing destiny : how America grew from sea to shining sea / Richard Kluger.
- Imprint
- New York : A.A. Knopf, 2007.
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [609]-624) and index.
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- Research Call Number
- ICI 07-5463