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1,000 Things to Love about America - by Brent Bowers & Barbara Bowers & Henry Gottlieb & Agnes Gottlieb (Paperback)

 1,000 Things to Love about America - by  Brent Bowers & Barbara Bowers & Henry Gottlieb & Agnes Gottlieb (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>From a quartet of journalists and the acclaimed co-authors of "1,000 Years, 1,000 People" comes a new book ranking the 1,000 greatest things about America--from jazz and the Gettysburg Address to baseball and the White Castle hamburger.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>From journalists Agnes Hooper Gottlieb and Henry Gottlieb, and Brent Bowers and Barbara Bowers, the acclaimed co-authors of <em>1,000 Years, 1,000 People</em>, comes a new book that celebrates the reasons we're proud to call America home--from jazz and the Gettysburg Address to baseball and the White Castle hamburger. Chock full of anecdotes and often surprising insights and historical information, <em>1,000 Things to Love About America</em> is a smart, breezy, and unabashed love song to the good old U.S.A.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br><p>From jazz to the Gettysburg Address to baseball to the White Castle hamburger--here are the 1,000 greatest things about America!</p><p>The Pilgrims called their new nation a shining city upon a hill. Abraham Lincoln praised it as the last, best hope of mankind. In times of boom or bust, this remarkable land we know as America has been a beacon of hope illuminating the world. Now the authors of <em>1,000 Years, 1,000 People: Ranking the Men and Women Who Shaped the Millennium</em> have teamed up once again to pay unabashed tribute to the greatness of our country--in a fascinating, fun, and informative celebration of the concepts, inventions, institutions, icons, history, social trends, geographical wonders, and consumer products that have made the U.S.A. such an awesomely amazing place!</p><p>The Constitution - Mount Rushmore - Backyard Decks - Monopoly Internet Shopping - Duct Tape - Yogi Berra - The Super Bowl Ultimate Frisbee - The Fifth Amendment - The PTA - The Indy 500 Freedom of the Press - Hollywood - Sesame Street - ChapStick Poker - The Wizard of Oz - Fast Food - The Cleveland Orchestra </p><p>The Barn Owl - Glacier National Park - Jack Daniel's Old No. 7 Patchwork Quilts - Soap Operas - Joy of Cooking - West Point A Streetcar Named Desire - The Florida Keys - The Red Cross Wikipedia - Deodorant - The Hubble Space Telescope - Grizzly Bears The Beach Boys - The White House - Recycling - Meat Loaf </p><p>. . . and many, many more Things to Love About America!</p>

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