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Seizing Destiny
Book • 2007
Seizing Destiny is a comprehensive historical narrative that explores the processes, pressures, and dynamics that led Americans to expand across a continent.
Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Richard Kluger examines how European, particularly English, settlers freed by the Reformation and Enlightenment from feudal constraints became instrumental in British imperial and later American territorial expansion, tracing the epic achievement through compelling narrative that celebrates the energy, daring, and statecraft involved in assembling the nation.
Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Richard Kluger examines how European, particularly English, settlers freed by the Reformation and Enlightenment from feudal constraints became instrumental in British imperial and later American territorial expansion, tracing the epic achievement through compelling narrative that celebrates the energy, daring, and statecraft involved in assembling the nation.
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