Discover America\'s secrets in this second of two volumes of the Young readers\' Edition of The Untold History of the United States, from Academy Award-winning director Oliver Stone and Peter Kuznick, adapted by Eric Singer.
Peter Kuznick is professor of History and director of the award-winning Nuclear Studies Institute at American University and is cu.
About the Author Oliver Stone made such iconic films as Platoon, Wall Street, JFK, Born on the Fourth of July, Natural Born Killers, Nixon, Salvador, and W.
It also provides a blueprint for those concerned with shaping a better and more equitable future for people across the world.
Singer from the bestselling book and companion to the documentary The Untold History of the United States by Academy Award-winning director Oliver Stone and renowned historian Peter Kuznick, this Volume gives Young Readers a powerful and provocative look at the US role in the Cold War.
Adapted by high school and university educator Eric S.
This Volume will come as a breath of fresh air for students, teachers, and budding Young historians hungry for different perspectives--which makes it a crucial counterpoint to today\'s History textbooks.
It also humanizes the experiences of diverse people, at home and abroad, who yearned for a more just, equal, and compassionate world.
This riveting Young Readers Volume challenges prevailing orthodoxies to reveal uncomfortable realities about the US role in heightening Cold War tensions.
This is not the kind of History taught in schools or normally presented on television or in popular movies.
Complete with poignant photos and little-known but vitally important stories, this second of two volumes traces how people around the world responded to the United States\'s rise as a superpower from the end of World War II through an increasingly tense Cold War and, eventually, to the brink of nuclear annihilation during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
And there is History we should have known.
There is History as we know it.
Discover America\'s secrets in this second of two volumes of the Young readers\' Edition of The Untold History of the United States, from Academy Award-winning director Oliver Stone and Peter Kuznick, adapted by Eric Singer
