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Published by American Heritage Publishing Co., New York, New York, U.S.A., 1958
Seller: Ray Dertz, Naperville, IL, U.S.A.
Magazine / Periodical
Hard Cover; Pictorial Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 8¾"x11½"; 112 pages; Hard cover with pictorial cover; The binding and pages are clean, tight and square. There is no underlining, highlighting or margin notes. A used copy with normal reading wear. If you order multiple titles, I will combine them in order to reduce postage costs. If you have any questions, contact me before ordering for details. Contains the following: "Ah, Your Majesty, There Is No Second" (America's Cup trophy awarded in the sport of sailing) by Alfred F. Loomis; "Baghdad on the Freeway" (Los Angeles, California) by Remi Nadeau; "The Coming of the Green" (an excerpt from the American Heritage Book Selection by Leonard Patrick O'Connor Wibberley; "The Days of Boom and Bust" (the Wall Street stock market crash of October 24 1929) by John Kenneth Galbraith; "Blondin, The Hero of Niagara" (Charles Blondin,Jean François Gravelet, French tightrope walker and acrobat) by Lloyd Graham; "Get the Prospect Seated.and Keep Talking" (Flying Stationers, travelling vendors of printed goods) by Gerald Carson; "Sailor with a Paint Brush" (Captain James Van Cleve, was an early steamship captain, historian and a chronicler of the Great Lakes shipping industry) by Robert Cowley; "The Woods Around Us" (New England forests) by Betty Flanders "Thomson; Crisis at the Antietam" by Bruce Catton; "Bloody Trek to Empire" (Fort Astoria, Oregon and Pacific Fur Company) by Richard L. Neuberger; "The Search for the Missing King" (statue of King George III pulled down by patriots in New York City) by Susan Elizabeth Lyman; "Jefferson and the Book-burners" (Thomas Jefferson?s donation of his library to the Library of Congress) by Henry Steele Commanger; "Reading, Writing, and History" by Bruce Catton; How to Win an Election (apocryphal speech of Davy Crockett in Little Rock Arkansas).