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Inventing America 2e

Endorsements

"You will envy the students who use this book. Reading Inventing America, looking at the nation’s history through the powerful lens of ceaseless innovation, you see events falling into place in ways they never have before. Even familiar subjects seem fresh."
—Malcolm Jones, Newsweek

"A textbook brimming with life."
—Alan Earls, Christian Science Monitor

"The power of Inventing America is that it makes the past intelligible in ways that are useful for the future."
—Diana Muir, Boston Globe

"A clear and crisply written, rigorously argued, and well-supported overview… filled with probing, interesting, and fascinating insights."
—Bryant Simon, University of Georgia

"Inventing America is something new, different, and altogether overdue. The book will take its place among the very best survey treatments of United States history produced in recent years."
—Amos St. Germain, Wentworth Institute of Technology