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10 Days That Unexpectedly Changed America (History Channel Presents)

by: Steven M. Gillon

: 10 Days That Unexpectedly Changed America (History Channel Presents)
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 973
EAN: 9780307339348
ISBN: 0307339343
Label: Three Rivers Press
Manufacturer: Three Rivers Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 272
Publication Date: April 04, 2006
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
Release Date: April 04, 2006
Sales Rank: 56376
Studio: Three Rivers Press



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A companion book to The History Channel® special series of ten one-hour documentaries

10 Days That Unexpectedly Changed America pinpoints pivotal days that transformed our nation. For the series and the book, The History Channel challenged a panel of leading historians, including author Steven M. Gillon, to come up with some less well-known but historically significant events that triggered change in America. Together, the days they chose tell a story about the great democratic ideals upon which our country was built.

You won’t find July 4, 1776, for instance, or the attack on Fort Sumter that ignited the Civil War, or the day Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon. But January 25, 1787, is here. On that day, the ragtag men of Shays’ Rebellion attacked the federal arsenal in Springfield, Massachusetts, and set the new nation on the path to a strong central government. January 24, 1848, is also on the list. That’s when a carpenter named John Marshall spotted a few glittering flakes of gold in a California riverbed. The discovery profoundly altered the American dream. Here, too, is the day that noted pacifist Albert Einstein unwittingly advocated the creation of the Manhattan Project, thus setting in motion a terrible chain of events.

Re-creating each event with vivid immediacy, accessibility, and historical accuracy, 10 Days That Unexpectedly Changed America comes together as a history of our country, from the first colonists’ contact with Native Americans to the 1960s. It is a snapshot of our country as we were, are, and will be.



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Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - An unexpectedly thought-provoking book
This book, the companion volume to a History Channel series with the same name, is an unexpectedly ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Great service
Thanks for the CDs. They were in great shape and worth the price!


Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - The Past that Created Change
In "10 Days That Unexpectedly Changed America", Steven M. Gillon writes about key events in US history ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Events are vividly re-created
If the title sounds familiar, it's because the History Channel has a series of documentaries on the topic ... Read More


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