A More Goodly Country: A Personal History of America - Paperbackby John Sanford (Author), Jack Mearns (Introduction by) Beginning in A. D. 1000 with Leif Ericson and ending with the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima in 1945, John Sanford (1904 2003), recipient of the PEN Award and the Los Angeles Times Lifetime Achievement Award, presents in poetic prose a searing personal history of the United States. "It was, and it is, an unrelenting and accusatory book. No one who values his country can find its charges