The story of America freedom and crisis from settlement to superpower [WorldCat Entities]

"[This volume] presents the history of the United States not as a parade of facts and dates but as a story with twists and turns, heroes and villains, lovers, saints - and even some comic relief. [In the volume, the authors] narrate American history from Columbus to the present as Americans actually live it. [It] presents a particular historical episode - the Lewis and Clark expedition, for example, or the Cuban Missile Crisis - while exploring the most important themes in U.S. history connected to that episode.-Dust jacket."