Chronicle of America

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Chronicle of America America the beautiful, the bountiful the proud. For aeons it was hidden in the mists of pre-history. Then, a few adventurous, bold and confident men discovered it. And it burst upon the consciousness of medieval Europe. It was vast, splendid, rich in resources, inhabited by primitive people who, after the continent's carapace of ice receded, had crossed the land bridge then existing between Siberia and Alaska. In the South, some tribes created great, glittering empires. In the North, they mostly led simple lives, hunting game, gathering fruit and grain. Then came the Europeans - at first timidly and then in a flood. In America - what we now call the United States - a miracle of nation-building occurred. The natives were swept aside, their lands preempted. The shackles of Europe were thrown off by the new settlers. Men of profound wisdom and beguiling rhetoric created a new kind of government - of the people, by the people, for the people. Settlers came from... Tovább

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Chronicle of America America the beautiful, the bountiful the proud. For aeons it was hidden in the mists of pre-history. Then, a few adventurous, bold and confident men discovered it. And it burst upon the consciousness of medieval Europe. It was vast, splendid, rich in resources, inhabited by primitive people who, after the continent's carapace of ice receded, had crossed the land bridge then existing between Siberia and Alaska. In the South, some tribes created great, glittering empires. In the North, they mostly led simple lives, hunting game, gathering fruit and grain. Then came the Europeans - at first timidly and then in a flood. In America - what we now call the United States - a miracle of nation-building occurred. The natives were swept aside, their lands preempted. The shackles of Europe were thrown off by the new settlers. Men of profound wisdom and beguiling rhetoric created a new kind of government - of the people, by the people, for the people. Settlers came from everywhere and for every reason - some in chains as slaves: To search for gold, to find land, to flee famine, to escape religious and political discrimination. America became, and still is, a magnet and a mecca for the oppressed, the dispossessed and the ambitious. A nation was created, not out of one people. It was a nation compounded of many peoples. Out of the mixture we made a breed called American. This American became the most inventive, productive, richest and strongest of God's creatures. He broke the age-old bonds of gravity, time and space, and soared to the moon, 250,000 miles away - the longest journey in human history. He cracked the atom, and - for good or ill - unleashed untold energy and destructive power. The land of the brave and the free: It fought five terrible wars, one on its own blood-soaked soil to preserve its unity and free the slaves. All this has now been recorded in this monumental book. Read all about it! Vissza