One Nation: Patriots and Pirates Portrayed By N. C. Wyeth and James Wyeth

Summary: The history of America in the twentieth century---full of innocence and deceit, promise and disappointment---has been chronicled by two members of the most famous family artists in America, The Wyeths. N. C. Wyeth, renowned illustrator and patriarch of the Wyeth artistic dynasty, created images that reflected American idealism. Along with his paintings of the founding fathers and nineteenth-century American heroes, he produced stirring images of Uncle Sam and the brave fighting troops of World War I and World War II, with the American flag flying gallantly overhead. N. C. Wyeth was, in fact, creating the symbols of patriotism for an era.