Johnny Appleseed: The Man, the Myth, the American Story
by Howard Means
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 1439178259
- ISBN 13
- 9781439178256
- Seller
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About This Item
First edition hardcover, which is in fine condition (except yellowing of pages - see photos) and signed and inscribed by the author. Seller will include pamphlet from event at the National Archives at which the author signed the book. Seller will carefully wrap book in bubble wrap, box it, and ship it with tracking.
"Finally, the cliché is peeled away and the essence of this utterly American character is so revealing. John Chapman comes alive here and it is a thrilling experience to escape the specific gravity of the decades of myth" (Ken Burns).
This portrait of Johnny Appleseed restores the flesh-and-blood man beneath the many myths. It captures the boldness of an iconic American and the sadness of his last years, as the frontier marched past him, ever westward. And it shows how death liberated the legend and made of Johnny a barometer of the nation's feelings about its own heroic past and the supposed Eden it once had been. Howard Means does for America's inner frontier what Stephen Ambrose's Undaunted Courage did for its western one.
"Finally, the cliché is peeled away and the essence of this utterly American character is so revealing. John Chapman comes alive here and it is a thrilling experience to escape the specific gravity of the decades of myth" (Ken Burns).
This portrait of Johnny Appleseed restores the flesh-and-blood man beneath the many myths. It captures the boldness of an iconic American and the sadness of his last years, as the frontier marched past him, ever westward. And it shows how death liberated the legend and made of Johnny a barometer of the nation's feelings about its own heroic past and the supposed Eden it once had been. Howard Means does for America's inner frontier what Stephen Ambrose's Undaunted Courage did for its western one.
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- Bookseller
- Book Nook (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- D-241
- Title
- Johnny Appleseed: The Man, the Myth, the American Story
- Author
- Howard Means
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 1439178259
- ISBN 13
- 9781439178256
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 2011-04
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