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Amazon.com Review
Who better to lead an online tour of America than Edward J. Renehan? He's a respected historian, Internet guru, and even a much-traveled musician. You might expect such a person to give a very personal view of this country, and you'd be right. Each of the 21 chapters begins with a mini-essay--entertaining and information-rich, despite their brevity--offering Renehan's personal insights into some topic's place in the American experience. The great thing is that the tour he provides leaves much room for every reader's take on American culture. Renehan serves up his selection of the best American Web sites with an eye on diversity. Here are sites showing both the range of American foods and the many ways we see our criminals and our legal system. There are sites devoted to all aspects of the American religious experience, historic events and sites, celebrations and extravaganzas, travel, natural wonders, politics and much more. What you'll get out of this book, besides a huge collection of wonderful web sites, is an enhanced appreciation for America's greatness--not just greatness in the sense of exalted, but in the sense of the expansiveness of its people, places, and subcultures.
From Library Journal
This is really a book on American history using the net. This might be compared to the Wolff New Media subject guides to the net?NetSex, Net Scifi, etc.?but we are dealing with a serious topic that will bring truly new resources to students' fingertips. Taking a broad view of American history, chapters deal with sports, architecture, crime, the outdoors, and food as well as the expected patriots, law, maps, and politics. From Gettysburg to T.S. Eliot to the My Lai massacre, it's all here for the clicking.
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Title
Great American Websites: an online discovery of a hidden America
Authors
Edward J. Renehan, Edward Renehan
Edition
illustrated
Publisher
Osborne McGraw-Hill, 1997
Original from
Indiana University
Digitized
16 Oct 2009
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