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Witness to America, a marvelous anthology of eyewitness accounts to key events in American history, opens with an act of rebellion: the Boston Tea Party of November 1773, when American tax resisters dressed as Mohawk Indians boarded a British vessel and dumped its cargo of tea overboard to protest a newly imposed duty on the much-used stimulant. It closes with another act of rebellion: the attempted impeachment of President William Jefferson Clinton, the long-sought dream of the makers of the so-called Republican Revolution of 1994. The first was reported by a participant, George Hewes, the second by a journalist, Michael Kinsley; but both acts reveal much about the values of the nation with the passage of time, and both documents will be of value to anyone seeking to understand America's political history now and in the future.
Witness to America, a marvelous anthology of eyewitness accounts to key events in American history, opens with an act of rebellion: the Boston Tea Party of November 1773, when American tax resisters dressed as Mohawk Indians boarded a British vessel and dumped its cargo of tea overboard to protest a newly imposed duty on the much-used stimulant. It closes with another act of rebellion: the attempted impeachment of President William Jefferson Clinton, the long-sought dream of the makers of the so-called Republican Revolution of 1994. The first was reported by a participant, George Hewes, the second by a journalist, Michael Kinsley; but both acts reveal much about the values of the nation with the passage of time, and both documents will be of value to anyone seeking to understand America's political history now and in the future.
Editors Stephen E. Ambrose and Douglas Brinkley, who are among the best-known American historians working today, understand the importance of such firsthand accounts to chroniclers of the past. They also understand that for too many Americans, "the word history implies an arid pedantry associated with dusty libraries and musty monographs." They've chosen the documents in this first-rate anthology with an eye to proving that history need not be dull, and the selections tell much that the standard textbooks do not, whether it be the mule-meat-and-bad-bean diet of the Confederates besieged at Vicksburg or the cold-war ravings of Beat Generation patron saint Jack Kerouac. At once entertaining and highly instructive, this book belongs in every history buff's library. --Gregory McNamee
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Ambrose and Brinkley, both of the Eisenhower Center for American Studies of the University of New Orleans, present a collection of nearly 170 primary historical documents paired with roughly 120 black-and-white illustrations. As the editors note, this book is an expanded version of The Heritage of America, issued a half-century ago by Henry Steele Commager and Allan Nevins, two late renowned interpreters of the American past. This revision adds 45 new selections covering the eventful years since World War II to the material presented by Commager and Nevins, whose choices have been weeded to reflect changes in historical interest and interpretation over the years. The problem with this revision lies not so much with the editors' choices, which generally demonstrate judicious, balanced coverage of both great events and common people, but with the availability of any number of other historical readers offering similar selections of primary historical material. Certainly, the Ambrose and Brinkley edition is intended for the trade market, as opposed to a more specialized education readership, but beyond the reputations of the editors, the content does not prove significantly superior to that of other collections.ACharles K. Piehl, Mankato State Univ., MN
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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