From Sea to Shining Sea!
A fat old history volume that starts with Washington and ends with Lincoln
Our book today is Robert Leckie's 1993 tome From Sea to Shining Sea, which covers the history of the United States from the end of the American Revolution to the dawn of the American Civil War. The dorky dust jacket tips the reader off to one of the stars of the narrative, loutish, racist, genocidal US President Andrew Jackson, but the story starts with George Washington and ends with Abraham Lincoln, so there are dozens and dozens of standout characters.
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