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Would you like to immerse yourself into American culture? You can have a quick reference guide to the best of the many events, inventions, products, and other data that have most influenced the land of the free and the home of the brave. A timeline of each of the major elements of American culture would bring the vast country into perspective. Would you like to have one small volume that contains the best of everything that America has been about since its inception? Travel guides and maps of the United States have always been available to anyone anywhere in the world. Magazines have offered snapshots of particular moments in time in American history. Tour guides and travelogues have presented visual statements. Many books have covered various specific elements of American culture. None have more accurately compressed the highlights of five-hundred years of Americana into 300 pages.

Timeline of America

Sound Bytes from the Consumer Culture

by Floyd M. Orr

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Timeline of America tells the story in eleven chapters. Each of the first ten chapters includes a detailed timeline specific to the nature of the subject of that chapter, as well as very candid stories and articles about specific elements of America's vast culture. The final chapter is composed of a 500-question trivia quiz about the aspects discussed in the other ten chapters.

The whole story is told from the perspective of an ordinary American who is not a professional journalist, academic, or celebrity. The majority of the material is concentrated within the past fifty years, the time frame of the Baby Boomer Generation. The sheer volume of the subject matter included is astounding for the size of the book. Many items are simply mentioned or listed; others are described in detail; and yet others are included at a level somewhere in between. The intent of the book is to capture the essence of America. The perspective goes all the way back to 1492 from 2006. Reading the timelines will bring continual reminiscences back to the surface of consciousness. The stories will take you back to a kinder, gentler time and the more recent references will bring you back to the current reality. Timeline of America is not a conventionally dry history book. The items and issues mentioned inside its covers had to be fun to read about, or they were left on the cutting room floor. This book is a time machine into the depths of what makes Americans Americans.

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07/02/06