The Men Who United the States: America's Explorers, Inventors, Eccentrics and Mavericks, and the Creation of One Nation, Indivisible

by Simon Winchester

Book Overview

Simon Winchester, the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of Atlantic and The Professor and the Madman , delivers his first book about America: a fascinating popular history that illuminates the men who toiled fearlessly to discover, connect, and bond the citizenry and geography of the U.S.A. from its beginnings. How did America become "one nation, indivisible"? What unified a growing number of disparate states into the modern country we recognize...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0062079603
• ISBN13: 9780062079602
• Release Date: October 2013
• Publisher: Harper
• Length: 496 Pages
• Weight: 1.61 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"