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(More customer reviews)Alan Brinkley has put together a wonderfully readable, balanced, and thorough history of the US, in just under a thousand pages. It would be ideal for college introductory classes (or very sophisticated high school students); particularly welcome are the selections from primary sources ("American Voices") that often represent other-than-white-male views, but include William Bradford on landing at Plymouth and Nixon on China, and the dozen or so segments called "Debating the Past" that reviw the differing perspectives historians have taken on such topics as slavery, populism, and Viet Nam. I have been a teacher for a quarter of a century, and this is the book I wish I'd had all that time
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The Unfinished Nation is known for its clear, lively literary style, for its comprehensiveness, for its clear and straightforward organization, and for its success in balancing social and cultural history with traditional political and diplomatic themes. This book tells the story of the diversity and complexity of the United States and also the forces that have drawn it together and allowed it to survive and flourish despite division.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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