John Seelye: 4 books

Book cover of Memory's Nation

Memory's Nation

The Place of Plymouth Rock

by John Seelye
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000

Long celebrated as a symbol of the country's origins, Plymouth Rock no longer receives much national attention. In fact, historians now generally agree that the Pilgrims' storied landing on the Rock never actually took place--the tradition having emerged more than a century after the arrival of the...
Book cover of Beyond Boundaries

Beyond Boundaries

Rereading John Steinbeck

by Lorelei Cederstrom, Gavin Cologne-Brookes, James C. Kelley
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2015

As a writer who, beginning in the 1930s, gave voice to the ordinary man and woman, Steinbeck came to be the conscience of America. He witnessed and recorded with clarity much of the political and social upheaval of the 20th century: the Great Depression, World War II, the Cold War, Vietnam. Yet his...
Book cover of On to the Alamo

On to the Alamo

Colonel Crockett's Exploits and Adventures in Texas

by Richard Penn Smith, John Seelye
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2003

David "Davy" Crockett (1786–1836) was born in Tennessee, fought alongside Andrew Jackson in the War of 1812, and later served three terms in the House of Representatives before heading to Texas, where he died defending the Alamo. Col. Crockett’s Exploits and Adventures in Texas, first...
Book cover of The Swiss Family Robinson
by Johann D. Wyss, John Seelye
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2007

The authoritative original English version of a beloved classic. One of the world's best-loved stories of shipwreck and survival, The Swiss Family Robinson portrays a family's struggle to create a new life for themselves on a strange and fantastic tropical island. Blown off course by a raging...
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