by Edith M. Pavese · Harry N. Abrams, Inc. · tapa dura · ISBN 9780810919303
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«American Highlights» is Edith Pavese's history of the United States, published by Harry N. Abrams in hardback (160 pages, in English and Spanish).
Traces the history of the United States through more than eighty works of art, from a fifteenth-century map that Columbus may have used to a computer-generated image. Includes everyday life and popular culture —baseball, Barnum's circus, Hollywood, television—, immigration and industrialization, with portraits of Franklin, Lincoln or the Wright brothers and works by Homer, Eakins and Hopper.
First edition (1993), with a foreword by Roger G. Kennedy and indexes; Spanish translation by Madela Ezcurra.
For art and US history enthusiasts seeking a visual and bilingual approach.
