9781439178263-1439178267-Johnny Appleseed: The Man, the Myth, the American Story

Johnny Appleseed: The Man, the Myth, the American Story

ISBN-13: 9781439178263
ISBN-10: 1439178267
Edition: Reprint
Author: Howard Means
Publication date: 2012
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Format: Paperback 336 pages
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ISBN-13: 9781439178263
ISBN-10: 1439178267
Edition: Reprint
Author: Howard Means
Publication date: 2012
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Format: Paperback 336 pages

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Johnny Appleseed: The Man, the Myth, the American Story (ISBN-13: 9781439178263 and ISBN-10: 1439178267), written by authors Howard Means, was published by Simon & Schuster in 2012. With an overall rating of 4.5 stars, it's a notable title among other United States (Historical, State & Local, United States History, Military History) books. You can easily purchase or rent Johnny Appleseed: The Man, the Myth, the American Story (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used United States books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.58.

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“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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