Description
Fine dust jacket, illustrated with photos, price clipped. The Fine condition binding is tan cloth over boards, gilt stamping on the cover and spine. Gift box is very good, photo of a valley and hills in the background with fall colors in the trees, edge-wear and some wear to the top. Illustrated endpapers. The binding is tight and pages are clean. The book measures 9.5″ tall x 11.2″ wide. The box measures 9.9″ tall x 11.7″ wide x .8″ thick.
About the book (from the dust jacket)
Our Heritage and Destiny in Great Words and Photographs.
A small Midwestern town-clean and white and lazy in the morning sun. A teeming Eastern city -loud blustery, moving quickly. The deserts and the marshes, the rolling hills and the plains, the farmer and the doctor and the banker and the mechanic – these are America. America is land. America is people. Restless, changing, vibrant with life. The Beauty of America offers an inspiring view of a nation, a chronicle in words and photographs of this magnificent country 220 million people call home.
“To every man his chance,”‘ wrote Thomas Wolfe, “-to every man regardless of his birth, his shining, golden opportunity…this, seeker, is the promise of America.’ Here, in great words and photographs, is the miracle land in which we live. The Beauty of America creates a portrait of the United States from the writings of such men and women as Robert Frost, Helen Keller, John Kennedy, Gertrude Stein, Walt Whitman Carl Sandburg, Dorothy Thompson and many more.
Our heritage is rich. “The land was ours before we were the land’s.” “writes Robert Frost. Therein lies our past and our future. “Our glory and our strength are in our naturalness,” says Pearl Buck, “in saying what we think unashamed, in doing what we feel is right, unafraid.”
Brilliant photographs reveal the land and its people, capturing the awesome beauty that. for three centuries has inspired the poets to write Following America from New York to California, from Dakota farmlands to Southern Delta, the photographs included here show a country splendid in range and breathtaking in promise.
The story of the United States is first and always a story of land and of people, The Beauty of America tells the story of America’s past, present, and future with force and spirit It is a book- that will make every American proud.
