Rating: 
Summary: Decent overview of American History, although a bit biased
Review: This book provides a fairly natural factual overview of American History from Colonization to Industrialization. However, cramming American History into a 300 page book is not an easy task, so significant details have been omitted (perhaps too many).The Great Republic is not as academic as some of Sir Churchill's other work (History of the English Speaking People, The Second World War, etc.), but it provides a good introduction to Churchills's writing style and rigor. At times, the book feels rushed and patched, but this is a cause of its nature (collection of parts of essays) and its length. This book will definitely appeal to the National Pride in every American. However, I was a bit disappointed that Sir Churchill tended to expose only positive aspects of our history and decided to ignore negative aspects (e.g.: Injustices suffered by Natives Americans during Colonalization, Atrocities of Slavery, Early Refusal to join WWII, etc.). The negative turns of our history are as much a part of where we are today as the positive turns. To conclude, I am not convinced that Sir Churchill would be extremely content as a Historian with this book; but it nevertheless provides a good 6 hours worth of facts about American History. A good refresher for most people, but I would not recommend this book as the only book to read on American History because it lacks breadth, depth, and perspective.
Rating: 
Summary: American History "Lite".
Review: This excerpted work is a light summary of American History from the perspective of a good friend and ally. It is not, however, a book that would have been taken seriously had it not been written by Churchill. To students of U.S. history, it will seem too superficial in most places (eg. Industrialization), too romantic in others (eg. the Civil War), and downright misleading in still others (imagine anyone describing Jefferson as 'frugal'!!). Having said all that, I enjoyed it precisely because it is our cousin's celebration of his own American roots.
Rating:
Summary: Decent overview of American History, although a bit biased
Review: This is a wonderful book on the Greatest Country of the century by the Greatest Man of the Century. I really enjoyed this book as it gave me an in depth account in one volume of the struggles and conflicts Americans had to go through to get to where they are today.
Rating: 
Summary: The country of the century, by the man of the century!
Review: This is a wonderful book on the Greatest Country of the century by the Greatest Man of the Century. I really enjoyed this book as it gave me an in depth account in one volume of the struggles and conflicts Americans had to go through to get to where they are today.
| 
