Foxing on book ledge Spine tilts forward Arthur Meier Schlesinger (Jr.) Putnam, 1983 - United States - 623 pages The Almanac of American History, illustrated with more than 200 line drawings and maps, is the most comprehensive single-volume reference work on the United States ever published. In it are described all the key events, personalities and issues that, together, produced the history of this vast and powerful nation.