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Rent 10 Days That Unexpectedly Changed America (History Channel Presents)
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Narrator: Stephen Hoye
Format: Unabridged-CD
Publisher: Random House
Published: Apr 2006
Genre: History - General
Retail Price: $30.00
Discs: 8
Synopsis
The companion to a ten-hour documentary series on the History Channel sheds new light on little-known events whose undervalued influence transformed American history, spanning the history of the United States from the time of the earliest European settlements to the recent past. Simultaneous. (A History Channel miniseries, airing April 2006). (History -- United States)
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