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Author: Alan Brinkley, Library of Congress, Vincent VirgaEdition: 1
Publisher: Random House IncISBN-10: 0679443304
Subject: HistoryISBN-13: 9780679443308
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Language: EnglishPublication Year: 1997
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An anthology of artifacts, taken from the Special Collections of the Library of Congress, that illustrate the history of the United States and its culture. Items such as a page of J. Robert Oppenheimer's notes on nuclear reactions, a label from a bottle of patent medicine, and a "Pogo" comic strip attacking Senator Joseph McCarthy are included, along with text by the distinguished historian Alan Brinkley describing the development of the American nation.

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Length:399 pages
Height:12.3 in.
Width:9.8 in.
Thickness:1.5 in.
Weight:75.2 oz.

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Never before has America's past been made so intriguingly accessible, both to the eyes and to the mind. Eyes of the Nation profits from seven chapters of lucid historical commentary by the distinguished historian Alan Brinkley, but at its core is a bountiful narrative-in-pictures drawn from the millions of maps, prints, photographs, posters, manuscripts, motion pictures, and other treasures in the Special Collections of the Library of Congress.
Never before has Americas past been made so intriguingly accessible, both to the eyes and to the mind. Eyes of the Nation profits from seven chapters of lucid historical commentary by the distinguished historian Alan Brinkley, but at its core is a bountiful narrative-in-pictures drawn from the millions of maps, prints, photographs, posters, manuscripts, motion pictures, and other treasures in the Special Collections of the Library of Congress. In vivid and inclusive fashion, the book proceeds from the first encounters of Europeans and Indians, through colonial days and the founding of the nation, industrialization and the western expansion, and the catastrophes and transformations of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, right up to the present. Thanks to the brilliant art selection by Vincent Virga and the Librarys Curators, every stage of the nation's development, every swerve in its fortunes, assumes arresting visual form.Appearing alongside such pivotal artifacts as an Indian treaty from 1714, a wanted poster for John Wilkes Booth, and a naval dispatch from 1941 ("AIR RAID ON PEARL HARBOR X THIS NOT A DRILL") are fascinating nuggets of popular culture and social history: an eighteen-pence note from 1776, the first telegraphic tape, a 1915 advertisement for the Pierce-Arrow automobile, a Pogo comic strip attacking Joseph McCarthy. Renowned American artists of every era--from John James Audubon and Matthew Brady to Mary Cassatt and Winslow Homer, from Frank Lloyd Wright, Edward Hopper, and Dorothea Lange to Robert Rauschenberg and Jennifer Bartlett--are exquisitely represented. Full, detailed captions accompany the images, and albumlike interludes explore four elemental themes of the American experience: the garden, the river, the city, and our people.In this audacious and sophisticated approach to the show-and-telling of history--as visual as it is textual, as thorough as it is irresistibly anecdotal--Eyes of the Nation is without peer.

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"[O]ne of the year's most absorbing picture books....Although celebratory in intent, this book is no whitewash, and Columbia University historian Brinkley is no booster. The book includes a dizzying array of images, from plans of slave ships to psychedelic posters."
San Francisco Chronicle Book Review - Kenneth Baker (11/30/1997)


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Eyes of the Nation: A Visual History of the United States

Product Category : Books
ISBN : 0679443304
Title : Eyes of the Nation: A Visual History of the United States
EAN : 9780679443308
Authors : Vincent Virga
Binding : Hardcover
Publisher : Knopf
Publication Date : 1997-11-04
Pages : 399
Dust Jacket : True
Jacket Condition : Very Good
List Price (MSRP) : 75.00
Height : 1.3300 inches
Width : 9.7100 inches
Length : 12.1600 inches
Weight : 5.0000 pounds
Keywords : General, General AAS, Hardcover, Printed Books
Condition : Very Good

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