"As majestic in its scope as the country it celebrates. [Johnson's] theme is the men and women, prominent and unknown, whose energy, vision, courage and confide

"The creation of the United States of America is the greatest of all human adventures," begins Paul Johnson's remarkable new American history. "No other nationa

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