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| America: A Narrative History, Full Sixth Edition, One-Volume Edition | 
| Authors: George Brown Tindall, David E. Shi
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Category: Book
List Price: $78.10
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 666175
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 6
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 1718
Shipping Weight (lbs): 5.2
Dimensions (in): 9.6 x 6.4 x 2.3
ISBN: 0393978125
Dewey Decimal Number: 973
EAN: 9780393978124
ASIN: 0393978125
Publication Date: July 2003
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Product Description
With nearly a million copies sold over five editions, America: A Narrative History is distinguished by its clear, colorful narrative and balanced incorporation of political history with social, cultural, and economic events. Retaining these classic strengths, the Sixth Edition introduces a new theme—the role of work in American life—and explores its social, political, and cultural dimensions. With an updated ancillary package that includes the new Norton Map Workbook in American History, America remains a superb choice for the US history survey.
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Broad, shallow, unobjectionable, vanilla March 23, 2007
My primary criticism of this book is that it fails to capture the essential flavor of the periods it talks about. Instead, everything is neatly summed up in little sound-bites that seldom venture into any controversial territory. I don't know whether the authors just lack any deep insight into the events they write about (how sad), or whether they're trying to get their textbook accepted at a larger number of schools by not offending anyone. Either way, the result is the same: a text that covers the entire lifespan of the United States, without saying much about any of it.
If you're looking for depth, you would probably be better served by reading books about specific periods rather than relying on a single-volume treatment like this.
My other criticism of this book is that it's physically painful to read. It has a fairly light typeface printed on high-gloss paper. Sub-section headings are just capitalized versions of the same typeface -- very hard to find when scanning the book. Ouch.
brick of knowledge March 13, 2006
1 out of 8 found this review helpful
Highly informative, highly relatable, and highly dense. Today was the first day that I read out of this book without falling asleep-- I actually use this book when I have trouble sleeping. It isn't written in a very engaging way. Last year for AP European history I read every word of Jackson J. Spielvogel's Western Civilization (5th ed) but I just can't get through this book.
The language isn't tough or anything like that, it just takes tons of time and motivation to get through it. My strategy is reading the related review section in my AP US history review book and highlighting that down, and then attempting to skim this text.
So in general, I'm mixed, but it's definitely boring for the most part.
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