A March of Liberty: A Constitutional History of the United States : From the Founding to 1890 (Constitutional History of the United States)

Rating:
Summary: A slightly skewed perspective
Review: The completeness and comprehensiveness of this volume is commendable, however, there are some things that detract from its overall value as a text. Reading it, it is very easy to pick up the authors' blatant partisanship, with inumerable stabs at the current Presidential administration, and ideological interpretations of groups and viewpoints in history. This is dangerous, especially when used as a tool in colleges and universities. It is not the business of historians to tell students what to think about history; rather, it is their responsibility to present history in a non-biased form and allow debate and discussion, and permit students to draw their own conclusions. I find this is too often the case with modern history texts. If these discrepancies are repaired, it would be a fine text. But as I said, the text encompassed a vast amount of information, and was essentially complete in portraying the early republic.