The host of the Travel Channel's "John Ratzenberger's Made in America" presents a collection of thought-provoking essays on what makes America the great nation that it is today.

The host of the Travel Channel's "John Ratzenberger's Made in America" presents a collection of thought-provoking essays on what makes America the great nation that it is today.

A military historian and author of How Wars Are Won offers an objective analysis of America's role in world affairs, looking at the enduring ideals and institutions that set America apart, American actions and decisions from its early days to the end of the Cold War, and the policies developed in the wake of September 11. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.