America, Volume 1 (of 6)

A monumental Victorian history of the United States, written with the confidence of an era that believed in progress. Joel Cook traces America's story from Captain John Smith's desperate settlement at Jamestown through the rich landscapes of Chesapeake Bay to the marble grandeur of Washington D.C., painting a young nation coming into its own. This first volume of a six-volume epic captures late-19th-century Americans' fierce pride in their republic's remarkable transformation from wilderness to world power. For readers curious about how Americans once narrated their own origins, and what that ambition reveals about the national imagination.