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Summary: Pretty Interesting for a textbook
Review: This is the textbook used by my AP US history class, and it is actually rather interesting. It is in depth (it covers everything from pre-Columbus to today's political/social scene), well-written, and has sometimes useful chapter overview sections at the beginning and end of each chapter. The information contained is pretty liberal, which improves coverage of political scams and scandals, women, minorities, and the arts. However, sometimes I wish it was a little more neutral in its outlook; conservative political groups are often portrayed as "yuckier" than liberal groups. Still, I think that this book is a good resource that tells some of the grittier details of American history.
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Summary: Outstanding, in-depth survey
Review: Tindall and Shi's surveyof U.S. history is the best I have encountered. It is long, detailed, sometimes dry, but it provided exactly the depth of knowledge and analysis for which I was looking. It is not a book for light-weights. If you desire the intellectual and conversational confidence that comes with mastery of a subject, particulary one as germaine to our everday lives as American history, then you want this book.
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Summary: Pretty Interesting for a textbook
Review: Tindall, in his 5th edition of this superb text, provides a quintessential guide to American history. Useful for late High School and underclassmen University courses in United States History, Tindall offers plenty of "raw" history. Analytical comment is kept to a minimum, to allow the reader or student to explore on his or her own. One hopes that the lack of primary sources or analytical material in Tindall's text will lead readers to seek out other sources before drawing their own conclusions.Tindall and his co-author, David Shi, do NOT provide a one-stop, all-you-need-to-know guide to US history. Instead, they provide the framework around which one can begin to shape one's own opinions. As one who studied from Tindall as a student and now teaches from Tindall in a private school, I applaud his successful effort once again.
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Summary: A wonderful resource
Review: Tindall, in his 5th edition of this superb text, provides a quintessential guide to American history. Useful for late High School and underclassmen University courses in United States History, Tindall offers plenty of "raw" history. Analytical comment is kept to a minimum, to allow the reader or student to explore on his or her own. One hopes that the lack of primary sources or analytical material in Tindall's text will lead readers to seek out other sources before drawing their own conclusions. Tindall and his co-author, David Shi, do NOT provide a one-stop, all-you-need-to-know guide to US history. Instead, they provide the framework around which one can begin to shape one's own opinions. As one who studied from Tindall as a student and now teaches from Tindall in a private school, I applaud his successful effort once again.
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