Present Tense: The United States Since 1945 by Schaller, Michael; Scharff
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Present Tense: The United States Since 1945 by Schaller, Michael; Scharff by Virginia Scharff ; Michael Schaller ; Robert D. Schulzinger is a general-interest book whose subject is easy to identify. The copy shown here is 1996 • Houghton Mifflin College Div • 571 pages.
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- If lyrical digressions lose you, the cast spans generations, asking for investment in many lives and timelines.
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Exact edition: ISBN-13 9780395745342
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