Legacy - Hardcover

James A. Michener

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Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0436282747 ISBN 13: 9780436282744

Publisher: Secker & Warburg, 1987

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Cloth Hardcover and Jacket5. 1987 First Edition, printing, Random House. New York. 178 pages, Gilded lettering on spine. The jacket show minor shelf wear marks. The book is clean, tight0, near to be like new. 6.0 x 8.8 inches (please see the pictures and edition year) Quick and safe shipping. M -47

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As Major Norman Starr is about to appear before a congressional committee to publicly account for his covert actions, he recalls the heritage of his ancestors and the role they played in the true glory of America. Bestselling author James Michener has painted a timeless family portrait and an eloquent lesson in American history.
"Michener is a master storyteller."
MILWAUKEE JOURNAL
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About the Author:

James A. Michener was one of the world’s most popular writers, the author of more than forty books of fiction and nonfiction, including the Pulitzer Prize–winning Tales of the South Pacific, the bestselling novels The Source, Hawaii, Alaska, Chesapeake, Centennial, Texas, Caribbean, and Caravans, and the memoir The World Is My Home. Michener served on the advisory council to NASA and the International Broadcast Board, which oversees the Voice of America. Among dozens of awards and honors, he received America’s highest civilian award, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, in 1977, and an award from the President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities in 1983 for his commitment to art in America. Michener died in 1997 at the age of ninety.

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