{"product_id":"book-ga4t","title":"100 Turning Points in American History","description":"\u003cp\u003eArnold J. Toynbee, the most famous professional historian of the twentieth century, is widely quoted as having declared that \"History is just one damn thing after another.\" This book argues that history is not about \"things\" at all but is all about turning points-the decisions, acts, innovations, errors, ideas, successes, and failures on which the shape of a nation's life-our lives-depends. It presents the one hundred points at which America's path decisively turned on its way to where we find ourselves today.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cp\u003eColumbus arrives in the New World\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe first slaves arrive in America\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndependence is declared\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cp\u003eFemale suffragists meet in Seneca Falls\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cp\u003eFort Sumter falls\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cp\u003eA transcontinental railroad is completed\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cp\u003eEdison lights his first electric lamp\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cp\u003eFDR offers a \"New Deal\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe B-29 Enola Gay drops an atomic bomb on Hiroshima\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cp\u003eNeil Armstrong sets foot on the moon\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cp\u003ePresident Nixon creates the EPA\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cp\u003e9\/11, Obama, Sandy Hook, Russian election \"meddling,\" and the Age of Trump\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese and many more are the crucial \"plot points\" in our grand national story, and bestselling historian Alan Axelrod presents them here.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Blackstone Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49289783640368,"sku":"BDga4t","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio CD","offer_id":49289783673136,"sku":"ZEga4t","price":49.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio MP3-CD","offer_id":49289783738672,"sku":"ZMga4t","price":35.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/ga4t-Square-cover.jpg?v=1782426736","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-ga4t","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}