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More imagesI Wish I'd Been There: Twenty Historians Bring to Life Dramatic Events That Changed America [VINTAGE 2006] [FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING]
Hollingshead, Byron (editor); Young, Biloine, W.; Norton, Mary Beth; Ellis, Joseph; Winik, Jay; Berkin, Carol; Baker, Kevin; Cowley, Robert; Gilman, Carolyn; Remini, Robert V.; Nagel, Paul, C.; Johannsen, Robert W.; Kunhardt, Philip, B.; Fleming, Thomas; Stevens, Mark; Weisberrger, Bernard; Rabb, Jonathan; Carson, Clayborne; Ward, Geoffrey; Dallek, Robert; Leuchtenburg, William
Language: English
Published by Doubleday, New York, 2006
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Vero Beach Books, Vero Beach, FL, U.S.A.Vero Beach Books
Contact seller5-star sellerHardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. As new condition maroon boards/brown spine/gold spine lettering contained in a fine condition non price-clipped color illustrated dust jacket. Includes List of Illustrations; Introduction by Byron Hollinshead; Acknowledgments; Illustration Credits; and A Not…e About the Editor. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs. "Twenty distinguished American historians vividly re-imagine twenty events of great drama and significance in our country's past. "What is the scene or incident in American history that you would like to have witnessed - and why?" This is the thought-provoking question that editor Byron Holingshead posed to twenty of our finest interpreters of American history with the invitation to write a personal essay answering it. The result is I Wish I'd Been There, a book that trains a lens on crucial moments of our past and brings them to vivid life. With these peerless scholars as their guides, readers will be transported to the Salem witch trials, the Lewis and Clark expedition, the raid on Harpers Ferry, the assissination of Abraham Lincoln, the Scopes "monkey trial," the beginnings of the Vietnam War, the voting rights march to Selma, and other turning points of our national drama. Contributors include Mary Beth Norton, Joseph Ellis, Jay Winik, Carol Berkin, Kevin Baker, Robert Cowley, Carolyn Gilman, Geoffrey Ward, Robert Dallek, and William Leuchtenburg, among other luminaries of the historical profession. I Wish I'd Been There is a marvelous concept, wonderfully and imaginatively executed. The result is an American pageant of character and event that will attract and delight readers of history." - from the inner front and rear jacket flaps. Reyes, Jesse Marinoff (jacket design); Hobbing, Diane (book design) (illustrator).
