{"product_id":"the-portugal-story-isbn-9780385513630","title":"The Portugal Story","description":"This selective history of Portugal reflects the author’s fascination with his own Portuguese\/Madeiran heritage. The work tracks the nation’s rise and fall as a world power, drawing from the author’s travels and archival research.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Dos Passos,” writes historian J. H. Plumb, “brings to his material a novelist’s acute eye for human character and a narrative skill that any historian might envy; and he has produced one of the most readable books on the subject that I know.”\u003cb\u003eJohn Dos Passos \u003c\/b\u003e(1896–1970) was born in Chicago and graduated from Harvard in 1916. His service as an ambulance driver in Europe at the end of World War I led him to write \u003ci\u003eThree Soldiers\u003c\/i\u003e in 1919. A prolific travel writer, biographer, playwright, and novelist, he is an American classic of the twentieth century. Dos Passos is the author of \u003ci\u003eManhattan Transfer, Three Soldiers, 1919, \u003c\/i\u003eand many more.","brand":"Doubleday","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46301772906725,"sku":"NP9780385513630","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780385513630.jpg?v=1767741015","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-portugal-story-isbn-9780385513630","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}