The grand and sweeping story of the United States has been captured by this book right from the times of Christopher Columbus and the Protestant Reformation movement that resulted in the colonization of the New World. The book intends to put U.S. economic and political history through a series of twenty-two essays­demonstrating that America's economic dynamism is the engine that drives political, social, and civic lives. It focuses on the Europeans' arrival in the New World, their lust for riches, and the consequences faced by the native Americans, and the resultant slave trade. In addition, the book covers World War I and II, the Civil War, the Cold War, and concludes with the face of modern America in the millennium.