Inventing America: A History of the United States
- ISBN-10
- 0393974340
- ISBN-13
- 9780393974348
- Series
- Inventing America
- Pages
- 1185
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2003
- Authors
- Merritt Roe Smith, Pauline Maier
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