本书是《美国风情系列丛书》中的一种，采用英汉对照形式编译而成。全书对美国历史进和中一些有重大影响的事件和人物作了广泛生动的介绍，从中可以了解美国诞生的过程、首届政府的产生、解放奴隶的艰辛，珍珠港事件的原委、越南战争的前前后后以及水门事件的内幕等等；还可心重睹美国一些著名人物的风采。全书选材精当，译文准流畅，是了解美国历史进程的理想读物；也可作为学习英语的辅助读物，适合于具有中等英语程度的广大英语爱好者。

1.The Oldest Citizens of North America

 北美最早的居民

2.Jamestown Settlement

 定居詹姆斯敦

3.The Mayflower and Plymouth

 “五月花号”和普利茅斯

4.The Big-Money Weed

 生财这草

5.The Chained Immigrants

 铁镣下的移民

6.Boston's Revolt

 波士顿的反抗

7.The Shots Fired At Lexington

 列克星敦的枪声

8.The Birth of the United States

 美国的诞生

9.The Fall of New York

 纽约失陷

10. The War and The Peace

战争与和平

When the war was won, there must have been a deal of guilt in the fawning frespect that important men, Congressmen in Particular, showed toward him in public. They had quit and he had stayed. When Washington died and the word got to Europe, Napoleon himself was seen to bow his head. In the English Channel, the British fleet fired a salute of twenty guns.

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