The United States

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THE UNITED STATES Guided by nine eminent European scholars and correspondents, you will embark on a remarkable tour of the United States in this engrossing volume. You will see the people and places of America, an energetic, fastmoving population in a country of surpassingly beautiful scenery and giant cities. You will read of the early settlers whose axes wrote legends across 3,000 miles of wilderness and you will come to know their descendants and the country they have made. Highly readable, informative and profusely illustrated, this volume makes a frank, detailed appraisal of the history, politics and economic and social aspects of the American scene. Text and photographs take you into the life of small towns in the Midwest with its great farms; up and down the steep slopes of San Francisco with its lovely saildotted bays and into the noisy, taxi-snarled streets of New York and Chicago. You will see rodeo cowboys bulldogging steers and you will walk the streets of Tomboy, a... Tovább

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THE UNITED STATES Guided by nine eminent European scholars and correspondents, you will embark on a remarkable tour of the United States in this engrossing volume. You will see the people and places of America, an energetic, fastmoving population in a country of surpassingly beautiful scenery and giant cities. You will read of the early settlers whose axes wrote legends across 3,000 miles of wilderness and you will come to know their descendants and the country they have made. Highly readable, informative and profusely illustrated, this volume makes a frank, detailed appraisal of the history, politics and economic and social aspects of the American scene. Text and photographs take you into the life of small towns in the Midwest with its great farms; up and down the steep slopes of San Francisco with its lovely saildotted bays and into the noisy, taxi-snarled streets of New York and Chicago. You will see rodeo cowboys bulldogging steers and you will walk the streets of Tomboy, a Rocky Mountain ghost town, bleak reminder of the frantic days when goíd and silver poured from the mines. You will take a front row seat at a session of Congress and visit the governor of a state for a family dinner. Here, too, is the stark contrast of fun-seekers vacationing in Miami and dedicated social workers helping poverty-stricken families in the mining towns of West Virginia. You will read of the idealists who led the Revolution and framed the country's Constitution, model for governments around the world; you will see America's artists and architects and their most inventive works. You will share the lives of typical Americans and visit their homes, offices and factories - and may even come to appreciate their exhausting quest of leisure over the everlengthening weekend. Vissza