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Title: The American People, Volume II - Since 1865: Creating a Nation and a Society (5th Edition) by Jeffrey Nash, Frederick Jeffrey, Winkler Howe, Frederick, Davis, Winkler, Allen F. Davis, Peter J. Frederick, John R. Howe, Julie Roy Jeffrey ISBN: 0-321-07626-5 Publisher: Addison Wesley Pub. Date: 07 August, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $83.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.88 (8 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Do your own research
Comment: It's amazing to me to read reviews of people who tout this book as "liberal propaganda" when it merely tells the truth about history. If you wanted the whitewashed version of history we were taught in high school, where Christopher Columbus had pure motives in the new world and didn't rape or enslave the native population, where the Native Americans were savages who were domesticated by the pilgrims who so graciously shared a Thanksgiving feast with them, where Woodrow Wilson's racism and hatred of women isn't mentioned...why did you bother taking a college history course, or bother going to college for that matter, at all? Pull your heads out of the sand! If you truly believe this book is socialist propaganda, I recommend you start doing your own research of America's past without using any high school or college textbook as a source of information - you'll find that this particular textbook has one of the truest pictures of American history available.
Rating: 4
Summary: Finally, a balanced history text
Comment: Some of the reviews posted here are just bizarre - did they read the book? Yes, the book writes minority groups and women into the story - where they belong (gay Americans are not mentioned at all in the pre-Civil War volume; in the full edition they are not mentioned until the 1970s gay rights movement!). The book discusses farmers, urban artisans, and everybody else in early America. It also does NOT ignore the traditional subjects of history - politics, leaders, diplomacy, economic development. Events and dates? of course, with timelines at the end of each chapter. Good maps. The only flaw is that it tries to work too much material in, gets too dense. Recommended.
Rating: 2
Summary: A bastion of liberal propaganda
Comment: I'm a high school junior in NJ, and I have to say that I have never met a single balanced history textbook throughout my education. "From the back cover: Emphasizing social history, especially as it applies to discussions of race, class, and gender..." And you wonder why all teenagers nowadays are all liberal Bush-haters, when they've been brainwashed by such biased history. Oh, conservatives are bad, right-wings are evil, this book preaches. And let's spend 10 chapters on Native Americans, 10 chapters on women, 10 chapters on slaves. Unbelievable.
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Title: Telecourse Guide for America in Perspective: U.S. History Since 1877 (5th edition) by Nash, Kenneth G. Alfers ISBN: 0321107152 Publisher: Pearson Addison Wesley Pub. Date: 2002 List Price(USD): $34.50 |
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Title: Perspectives on America by Ken Alfers ISBN: 0828109974 Publisher: Amer Heritage Pub Co Pub. Date: May, 1997 List Price(USD): $18.50 |
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Title: Telecourse Study Guide T/a the American People, Volume Ii, 5/E by NASH ISBN: 0321084519 Publisher: Pearson Professional Education Pub. Date: 31 December, 2000 |
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Title: American People: Creating a Nation & Society by Gary B. Nash ISBN: 0321084934 Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub Co Pub. Date: April, 2002 List Price(USD): $26.67 |
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Title: The World Turned Upside Down: Indian Voices from Early America (The Bedford Series in History and Culture) by Colin G. Calloway ISBN: 0312083505 Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's Pub. Date: March, 1994 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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