TY  - GEN
T1  - The Story of America : Essays on Origins.
LA  - English
YR  - 2012
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocn817813756
AB  - In The Story of America, Harvard historian and New Yorker staff writer Jill Lepore investigates American origin stories--from John Smith's account of the founding of Jamestown in 1607 to Barack Obama's 2009 inaugural address--to show how American democracy is bound up with the history of print. Over the centuries, Americans have read and written their way into a political culture of ink and type. Part civics primer, part cultural history, The Story of America excavates the origins of everything from the paper ballot and the Constitution to the I.O.U. and the dicti.
OP  - 427
CN  - E173 .L47 2012
SN  - 9781400844555
SN  - 140084455X
SN  - 1283611058
SN  - 9781283611053
SN  - 9780691153995
SN  - 069115399X
KW  - United States : History : Sources.
KW  - United States : Politics and government : Sources.
KW  - HISTORY : United States : State & Local : General.
KW  - HISTORY : Essays.
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - United States
KW  - Erzählung
KW  - Gründung
KW  - USA
KW  - Cultuur.
KW  - Bellettrie.
KW  - Amerikaans.
KW  - Politieke cultuur.
KW  - Politieke communicatie.
KW  - Verenigde Staten.
KW  - History
KW  - Sources
KW  - Geschiedenis (vorm)
ER  -