Standing at Armageddon is a comprehensive and lively historical account of America's shift from a rural and agrarian society to an urban and industrial society.

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"A consistently engrossing, occasionally irreverent, always smoothly written history of America's painful entry into the modern age."—Kirkus Reviews Standing

Volume 1 of a 5 Volume story, the best selling Armageddon's Song series, now with map illustrations: Did the Cold War really end? No matter, it is about to get

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