Description Arnold J.
He has been a creative consultant (and on-camera personality) for The Wild West television documentary series (Warner Bros.), Civil War Journal (A&E Network), and The Discovery Channel, and he has appeared on MSNBC, CNN, CNNfn, CNBC, Fox Netwo. in English (specializing in early American literature and culture) from the University of Iowa in 1979, Axelrod taught early American literature and culture at Lake Forest College (Lake Forest, Illinois) and at Furman University (Greenville, South Carolina).
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About the Author Alan Axelrod is the author of more than 100 books on history, military history, leadership, management, corporate history, career, general business, and other nonfiction.
These and many more are the crucial "plot points" in our grand national story, and best-selling historian Alan Axelrod presents them here. the Age of Trump ...
Russian election "meddling" ...
Sandy Hook ...
Obama ...
Board of Education Neil Armstrong sets foot on the moon President Nixon creates the EPA 9/11 ...
Columbus arrives in the New World The first slaves arrive in America Independence is declared The Indian Removal Act is passed Female suffragists meet in Seneca Falls Harpers Ferry is raided Fort Sumter falls A transcontinental railroad is completed Edison lights his first electric lamp Prohibition makes America a nation of lawbreakers FDR offers a "New Deal" The B-29 Enola Gay drops an atomic bomb on Hiroshima The Supreme Court decides Brown v.
It presents the 100 Points at which America\'s path decisively turned on its way to where we find ourselves today.
Toynbee, the most famous professional historian of the twentieth century, is widely quoted as having declared that "History is just one damn thing after another." This book argues that History is not about "things" at all but is all about Turning points--the decisions, acts, innovations, errors, ideas, successes, and failures on which the shape of a nation\'s life--our lives--depends.
Description Arnold J
