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Informationen zum Autor Gary B. Nash is a professor of history and director of the National Center for History in the Schools at UCLA. A former president of the Organization of American Historians! he has written and edited more than twenty books. He is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences! the American Philosophical Society! the Society of American Historians and the American Antiquarian Society. From 1992 to 1996! he co-chaired the National History Standards Project. He lives in Pacific Palisades! California. Klappentext It tells of the efforts of a wide variety of men and women who stepped forward amidst a discouraging! debilitating! but ultimately successful war to set a new course for the new country- one free of entrenched class hostilities! religious bigotry and racism. Zusammenfassung It tells of the efforts of a wide variety of men and women who stepped forward amidst a discouraging! debilitating! but ultimately successful war to set a new course for the new country- one free of entrenched class hostilities! religious bigotry and racism.