How long does it take to read Eyewitness to America?
Eyewitness to America by David Colbert takes about 12 hours 6 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 12 hours 6 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1997. 660 pages, about 181,500 words.
25 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 20 hours 10 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 12 hours 6 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 7 hours 34 minutes |
The page count is the median across 2 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Here are the vivid impressions of three hundred extraordinary men and women who saw the story of America, from Columbus to Cyberspace. Their accounts - expertly gathered from diaries, private letters, memoirs, and reportage - bring America's decisive and defining moments to life as only first-hand reports can. These flashes of history have been captured by eyewitnesses like Mark Twain, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Malcolm X, Hunter S. Thompson, and hundreds of others who were at the right place at the right time, with their eyes wide open and a gift for telling about it in sharp, memorable detail. From all these moments, over five centuries, a compelling portrait appears. Patterns emerge to reveal the themes that run through American life: the eternal pursuit of the quick buck; the urge to negotiate a perfect society; and the national need for speed, in everything from the Pony Express to jet planes to the Internet.
Subjects: Sources, History
