1,000 Things to Love about America: Celebrating the Reasons We're Proud to Call the U.S.A. Home Paperback - 2010
by Brent Bowers; Barbara Bowers; Henry Gottlieb
From a quartet of journalists and the acclaimed co-authors of "1,000 Years, 1,000 People" comes a new book ranking the 1,000 greatest things about America--from jazz and the Gettysburg Address to baseball and the White Castle hamburger.
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From jazz to the Gettysburg Address to baseball to the White Castle hamburger--here are the 1,000 greatest things about America!
The Pilgrims called their new nation "a shining city upon a hill." Abraham Lincoln praised it as "the last, best hope of mankind." In times of boom or bust, this remarkable land we know as America has been a beacon of hope illuminating the world. Now the authors of 1,000 Years, 1,000 People: Ranking the Men and Women Who Shaped the Millennium have teamed up once again to pay unabashed tribute to the greatness of our country--in a fascinating, fun, and informative celebration of the concepts, inventions, institutions, icons, history, social trends, geographical wonders, and consumer products that have made the U.S.A. such an awesomely amazing place!
The Constitution - Mount Rushmore - Backyard Decks - Monopoly Internet Shopping - Duct Tape - Yogi Berra - The Super Bowl Ultimate Frisbee - The Fifth Amendment - The PTA - The Indy 500 Freedom of the Press - Hollywood - Sesame Street - ChapStick Poker - The Wizard of Oz - Fast Food - The Cleveland Orchestra
The Barn Owl - Glacier National Park - Jack Daniel's Old No. 7 Patchwork Quilts - Soap Operas - Joy of Cooking - West Point A Streetcar Named Desire - The Florida Keys - The Red Cross Wikipedia - Deodorant - The Hubble Space Telescope - Grizzly Bears The Beach Boys - The White House - Recycling - Meat Loaf
. . . and many, many more Things to Love About America!
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- Title 1,000 Things to Love about America: Celebrating the Reasons We're Proud to Call the U.S.A. Home
- Author Brent Bowers; Barbara Bowers; Henry Gottlieb
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Edition
- Pages 320
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Harper Perennial
- Date 2010-06-08
- ISBN 9780061806285 / 0061806285
- Weight 0.52 lbs (0.24 kg)
- Dimensions 8.16 x 5.6 x 0.8 in (20.73 x 14.22 x 2.03 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects United States, National characteristics, American
- Dewey Decimal Code 973
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