books by Henry Steele Commager

books by Henry Steele Commager

books:

Henry Steele Commager

The Story of World War II: Revised, expanded, and updated from the original text by Henry Steele Commanger

Donald L. Miller, Henry Steele Commager

Simon & Schuster, 2002

A thorough account of World War II
My high school education prior to the reading of this book had World War II as some semi abstract event consisting of Nazis, Kamikaze pilots, The Holocaust, the dropping of the nuclear bomb. After reading this book, I feel I have a much more thorough and detailed ...

The Empire of Reason: How Europe Imagined and America Realized the Enlightenment

Henry Steele Commager

Peter Smith Pub Inc, 1984

Eye-opening perspective on American spirit!
A must-have for anybody interested in American history. This book is a great reminder of everything US stands for, especially now, when the spirit of libery and democracy is under attack. I got this book from the library to simply do a research for my history class but ...

A Pocket History of the United States

Allan Nevins, Henry Steele Commager

Pocket Books, 1992

A Wonderful Source of Help
I bought this book in the summer before my A.P. United History course to start up on some pre-studying. I am not that great of a student, and I have a really hard time reading the school text books. This book is really captivating and goes into detail when needed. ...

The Spirit of Seventy-Six: The Story of the American Revolution As Told by Participants

Book Sales, 2002

Great For The Historian!
The Spirit of Seventy-six by Henry S. Commager is possibly the best collection of writings from the American Revolution. The book has thousands of exerts from journals, diaries, and letters by participants. The book also has great maps to refer to while studying a ...

The Growth of the American Republic (Volume I)

Samuel Eliot Morison, Henry Steele Commager, ...

Oxford University Press, USA, 1980

Classic of the "Plymouth Rock" School.
This book is a classic deserving of that title. What is it that makes it truly extraordinary? Lucidity, clarity, and topical broadness make this work particularly impressive. Though it looks like a standard college freshman text, it doesn't read that way. You're not ...

Commager on Tocqueville

Henry Steele Commager

Univ of Missouri Pr, 1993

A Brief Look at Tocquevillian Issues(3.5 *s)
The Western world had seen tremendous political change in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Many were attempting to grasp the significance and the nature of the democratic changes that were occurring. Tocqueville, a French aristocrat, took it upon ...

The American Spirit: The Paintings of Mort Kunstler (Art & Architecture)

Henry Steele Commager, Rod Gragg, ...

Thomas Nelson, 1994

A GREAT BOOK!
This book has been out of print for years and I'm so happy that I got it now. This book explores all aspects of American History-from Ancient Indian times in America to modern day events. It is unfortunate that it doesn't have even more art in it though. Mort ...

The St Nicholas Anthology
Editor Henry Steele Commager

Random House, 1948

Documents of American History, Volume 1: to 1898

Prentice Hall, 1988

A must-have for all American History students
This is the best book I've ever used for writing history reports. It has documents about every major event in the history of the United States, and many letters and speeches on topics you can't find in any other books at the local library. It contains 633 entries, ...

A Concise History of the American Republic: Single Volume
Samuel Eliot Morison, Henry Steele Commager, ...

Oxford University Press, USA, 1983

A Concise History of the American Republic, Second Edition, is a compact, authoritative, gracefully written narrative of American history from the arrival of the Native Americans' Siberian forebears to the economic conflicts of the Carter and Reagan administrations. Its distinguished authors embrace a full range of the American experience: ...

The Second St. Nicholas Anthology
Henry Steele Commager

Random House, 1950

The American Mind: An Interpretation of American Thought and Character Since the 1880's

Henry Steele Commager

Yale University Press, 1959

Our forgotten Progressive-era intellectuals
Commager's thesis here is pretty simple: The American character is animated by pragmatic concerns rather than by abstract thoughts. Commager reckons that the Civil War and the economic disasters of the 1890s provided the kindling for a blaze of intellectual, national ...