The Shortest History of the United States of America

The Shortest History of the United States of AmericaWhen Britain's thirteen American colonies declared their independence on 4 July 1776, the United States of America was born. But it was hardly united. In this superbly written book, Don Watson traces how the central conflicts of the United States those over freedom, race, frontiers, enterprise, religion and violence play out throughits history a country at war with itself in the 1860s, the leader of the free world less than a hundred years later, and

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