Despite the reality this book was written with an audience of children in mind, it is still something anyone young of heart with a concern for the cause of freedom in the country can appreciate.
Beginning with early migrants arriving from Asia more than 13,000 years ago and concluding with the events of September 11th, Lynne Cheney transports the reader on a whirlwind tour of bullet points through the ensuing centuries. From well known pieces of history like the founding of Jamestown, the first permanent settlement, to the publication of Thomas Paine’s revolutionary essay “Common Sense”, to President Abraham Lincoln’s “Emancipation Proclamation”, to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor to the more obscure events like the Congress barring slavery in lands north of the Ohio River and east of the Mississippi, to the potato crop failure in Ireland being the impetus for the flood of Irish immigrants during the mid 1800’s – three notables being ancestors to American icons Eugene O’Neil, Henry Ford, and John Kennedy.
Such is what one will encounter when walking through these centuries of pages – a snapshot of Americana in a quick digest anyone can embrace; a roadmap by which all young Americans can travel the road of their great country’s story.
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