{"product_id":"johnny-appleseed-the-man-the-myth-the-american-story","title":"Johnny Appleseed: The Man, the Myth, the American Story","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eJohnny Appleseed: The Man, the Myth, the American Story\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eHoward Means\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9781439178263\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eSimon \u0026amp; Schuster\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2012\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eReprint\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e336\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eExcellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Finally, the cliché is peeled away and the essence of this utterly American character is so revealing. John Chapman comes alive here and it is a thrilling experience to escape the specific gravity of the decades of myth\" (Ken Burns).\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis portrait of Johnny Appleseed restores the flesh-and-blood man beneath the many myths. It captures the boldness of an iconic American and the sadness of his last years, as the frontier marched past him, ever westward. And it shows how death liberated the legend and made of Johnny a barometer of the nation's feelings about its own heroic past and the supposed Eden it once had been. Howard Means does for America's inner frontier what Stephen Ambrose's \u003ci\u003eUndaunted Courage \u003c\/i\u003edid for its western one.\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster","offers":[{"title":"Johnny Appleseed: The Man, the Myth, the American Story | Howard Means | Paperback | 9781439178263 | Used: Like New | Back Stacks F 1763790","offer_id":49287649427608,"sku":"1763790","price":13.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/71ct-nTbVoL.jpg?v=1781894027","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/johnny-appleseed-the-man-the-myth-the-american-story","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}