By Gladys Knight

ISBN-10: 0313398828

ISBN-13: 9780313398827

This three-volume reference set explores the background, relevance, and importance of popular culture destinations within the United States—places that experience captured the mind's eye of the yankee humans and mirror the range of the nation.

• permits readers to understand how their lives were motivated by means of daily areas some time past, from centuries in the past to the trendy era

• offers distinct and enlightening insights via a finished evaluate of the background, modern views, and dad tradition affects of locations throughout America

• Spotlights old destinations critical to motion pictures, tv, tune, and way of life to educate scholars approximately American background and tradition via themes that curiosity them

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