America, Empire of Liberty: A New History of the United States

by David Reynolds

Book Overview

"The best one-volume history of the United States ever written" (Joseph J. Ellis)

It was Thomas Jefferson who envisioned the United States as a great "empire of liberty." This paradoxical phrase may be the key to the American saga: How could the anti-empire of 1776 became the world's greatest superpower? And how did the country that offered unmatched liberty nevertheless found its prosperity on slavery and the dispossession of Native...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0465022146
• ISBN13: 9780465022144
• Release Date: July 2011
• Publisher: Basic Books
• Length: 592 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 6.2" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher