"This Country of Ours" is a collection of extraordinary stories from the history of the United States beginning with accounts of exploration and settlement and

History is presented with a personal viewpoint of how and why it may have happened.

For too long we’ve lacked a compact, inexpensive, authoritative, and compulsively readable book that offers American readers a clear, informative, and inspiri

Winner of the High Plains Book Award | Best Book of the Year - Outdoor Writers Association of America “A brilliant rendering of what 'the open space of democr

"Douglas Brinkley and American Heritage have done a grand job. This is a first-rate book: fair, clear, and enormously welcome." - David McCullough "Douglas Brin