America redux : visual stories from our dynamic history
(2023)

Nonfiction

Book

Call Numbers:
TEEN/973/ABERG-RIGER,A

Availability

Locations Call Number Status
Teen TEEN/973/ABERG-RIGER,A Available

Details

PUBLISHED
New York, NY : Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2023]
©2023
EDITION
First edition
DESCRIPTION

v, 294 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm

ISBN/ISSN
9780063057531, 0063057530 :, 0063057530, 9780063057531
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

Preface -- The good old days -- Let freedom ring -- Spreading democracy -- A nation of immigrants -- Traditional family values -- One nation under God -- Home of the brave -- Give me liberty -- Good guy with a gun -- A new world -- This land is your land -- A car in every garage -- White picket fences -- Wish you were here -- As American as -- The old ballgame -- Down on the farm -- Made in America -- Streets paved with gold -- Nose to the grindstone -- We the people

"America Redux explores the themes that create our shared sense of American identity and interrogates the myths we've been telling ourselves for centuries. With iconic American catchphrases as chapter titles, these twenty-one visual stories illuminate the astonishing, unexpected, sometimes darker sides of history that reverberate in our society to this very day--from the role of celebrity in immigration policy to the influence of one small group of white women on education to the effects of "progress" on housing and the environment, to the inspiring force of collective action and mutual aid across decades and among diverse groups"--