The Glory and the Dream: A Narrative History of America, 1932-1972
- ISBN-10
- 0553012908
- ISBN-13
- 9780553012903
- Series
- The Glory and the Dream
- Category
- United States
- Pages
- 1397
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1975-09-01
- Author
- William Manchester
Description
Masterfully compressing four crowded decades of our history, The Glory and the Dream relives the epic, significant, or just memorable events that befell the generation of Americans whose lives pivoted between the America before and the ...
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