Seizing Destiny
  • Published: 15 November 2008
  • ISBN: 9780375712982
  • Imprint: Knopf US
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 672
  • RRP: $45.00
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Seizing Destiny

The Relentless Expansion of American Territory

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Less than 100 years after its creation as a fragile republic, the United States more than quadrupled its size, making it the world's third largest nation. No other country or sovereign power had ever grown so big so fast or become so rich and so powerful. Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Richard Kluger chronicles this epic achievement in a compelling narrative, celebrating the energy, daring, and statecraft behind America's insatiable land hunger while exploring the moral lapses that accompanied it. Comprehensive and balanced, Seizing Destiny is a revelatory, often surprising reexamination of the nation's breathless expansion, dwelling on both great accomplishments and the American people's tendency to confuse opportunistic success with heaven-sent entitlement that came to be called manifest destiny.
  • Published: 15 November 2008
  • ISBN: 9780375712982
  • Imprint: Knopf US
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 672
  • RRP: $45.00
Categories:

About the author

Richard Kluger

Richard Kluger’s books include Simple Justice, the classic account of the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1954 landmark decision ending racial segregation of the nation’s public schools, and The Paper: The Life and Death of the New York Herald Tribune, both finalists for the National Book Award. His critical history of the tobacco industry, Ashes to Ashes, won the Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction in 1997. He is also the author or coauthor of eight novels. He lives with his wife, Phyllis, in Berkeley, California.

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Praise for Seizing Destiny

"This is a magisterial account of a monumental subject, nothing less than the acquisition and occupation of America. In Kluger's capable hands it is a story of courage and cunning, destiny and depravity, bravado and brutality, the defining themes of American history, dripping with irony." --Joseph J. Ellis, author, Founding Brothers

"Sweeping. . . Kluger breathes new life into an oft-told tale by offering sharp and shrewd judgments of the movers and shakers in America's surge to dominion."--The Baltimore Sun