{"product_id":"2026100010897-secondhand-america-the-story-of-a-free-people","title":"America: The Story Of A Free People","description":"\u003cp\u003eEdition: repr.,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Fair\u003cbr\u003eJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and corners\u003cbr\u003ePages: Tanning and foxing\u003cbr\u003eMarkings: Previous owner\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the earliest colonial settlements to the trials of the modern age, America: The Story of a Free People presents a sweeping, authoritative narrative of the United States — a nation forged from revolution, idealism, and an unyielding belief in liberty. Allan Nevins and Henry Steele Commager, two of the twentieth century's most distinguished American historians, chronicle the full arc of the American experiment, tracing the political, social, and economic forces that shaped a continent and ultimately defined a civilization. Written with clarity and conviction, the text distils vast historical complexity into a narrative that is both accessible and intellectually rigorous, making it an essential primer for anyone seeking to understand the foundations of American democracy.\n\nNevins and Commager bring complementary scholarly voices to a story that is, at its core, about the enduring tension between freedom and order, unity and dissent, ambition and conscience. Published by Oxford at the Clarendon Press — a hallmark of academic prestige — the work carries the authority of serious scholarship while retaining the narrative vitality of great historical writing. Broad in scope yet precise in its judgements, this is a landmark text that continues to ask the most important question of all: what does it truly mean to be a free people?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50572627280091,"sku":"2026100010897-SECONDHAND","price":15.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/0c5e668b-d910-42b3-a358-94eb4f7bb9b6.png?v=1791167034","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026100010897-secondhand-america-the-story-of-a-free-people","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}