The Beaufort Bookstore, Coffee Table Books

Three Coffee Table Books  

Witness to America: An Illustrated Documentary History of the United States from the Revolution to Today  Hardcover – October 20, 1999

• "Witness to America, reads as if it were today’s news about unforgettable chapters of our history, told by those who lived it and those who observed it."   —Steven Spielberg

They Changed the World: 200 Icons Who Have Made A Difference.  

• Synopsis A dramatic distinguished record, They Changed the World is a powerful and provacative look at the giants of our time--the groundbreakers, thought-provokers, visionaries, tyrants, trendsetters, and style-makers who have left an indelible mark on our world. the culmination of ten years' research on the part of author Barbara Cady and photo editor Jean-Jacques Naudet, it features two hundred of our century's most recognizable faces--individuals who have helped form our modern sensibilities, for better or worse.

The Century - Peter Jennings & Todd Brewster 

•      What was it like to watch the Wright Brothers soar into the sky? To hear the first crackling voice aired on the radio? To cower in the ghastly trenches of Europe during World War I? To lose everything in the stock-market crash of 1929, or experience the birth of rock and roll? To watch the Berlin Wall divide East and West, and then, twenty-eight years later, to see it fall under the weight of tens of thousands seeking to taste freedom? For the past seven years, researchers, reporters, and producers for ABC News have searched the world's archives for the rarest and most stunning photographs and images, consulted eminent twentieth-century historians, and discovered and interviewed hundreds of eyewitnesses and participants in the significant moments of the most eventful one hundred years in human history.
       The result is this spectacular book, the independent companion volume to the landmark ABC News and The History Channel television series The Century.  Co-written by ABC News Anchor Peter Jennings and Senior Editorial Producer Todd Brewster, The Century features a narrative of extraordinary quality that tracks major themes--the impact of technology, the soaring of the imagination, the ghastly violence, the joy of entertainment--through chronological chapters recounting the signal moments of each era in the century.  From "Seeds of Change: 1901-1914" to "Machine Dreams: 1990-1999," each chapter is threaded through with fascinating first-person accounts of the great events of the twentieth  century, and illustrated with over five hundred color and black-and-white photographs (many never published before) reproduced in exquisite depth and clarity.
       The Century presents history as it was lived, and as it will be remembered for the next hundred years.  Here is a keepsake volume destined to be an essential part of every family's library: an epic journey through the last hundred years, whose heroes are our grandparents, our parents, ourselves.

3 Coffee Table Books are in gently used condition, donated by The Beaufort Bookstore 

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