Eyes of the Nation
by: Vincent Virga & Alan Brinkley






 
Eyes of the Nation is a magnificent one-volume pictorial and narrative history of the United States with more than five hundred exceptional illustrations, many reproduced here for the first time. Never before has Americas past been made so intriguingly accessible, both to the eyes and to the mind. Eyes of the Nation features seven chapters of lucid historical commentary by the distinguished historian Alan Brinkley.

A bountiful narrative-in-pictures is drawn from the millions of maps, prints, photographs, posters, manuscripts, motion pictures, and other treasures in the special collections of the Library of Congress. The book proceeds from the first encounter of Europeans and Indians, through colonial days and the founding of the nation, industrialization and westward expansion, and the transformations of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, through to the present day.

The brilliant art selections of Vincent Virga and the Library's curators provide every stage of the nation's development, every swerve of its fortunes, assuming arresting visual form. Each chapter is introduced by an essay by the National Book Award winning historian, Alan Brinkley.

Vincent Virga has been called America's foremost picture editor. He has researched, edited, and designed picture sections for more than 250 books, as well as the full-length photo essay The Eighties.

Alan Brinkley is Provost and Professor of History at Columbia University.

The Library of Congress is the nation's oldest federal cultural institution and it serves as the research arm of Congress. It is also the largest library in the world with more than 126 million items on approximately 530 miles of bookshelves. The collections include nearly 19 million books, 2.6 million recordings, 12 million photographs, 4.8 million maps, and 56 million manuscripts.

 
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ISBN: 1-59373-035-7
Publication date: June 2004
Format: soft cover, 12" x 9 1/4" (portrait)
4-color and duotone throughout
Double Gatefold
Extent: 416pp, 500 illustrations
Category: American History