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Title: The American Pageant Vol. II : Since 1865 by T.T. Bailey ISBN: 0-618-10354-6 Publisher: Not Avail Pub. Date: 01 July, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $74.76 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.44 (55 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Perfect for Advenced High School Students
Comment: The American Pageant. I have such fond memories of AP American History where the lively and insightful prose of Bailey and others made history at once acessible and fun for interested and devoted students of American history. Bailey often uses metaphor to enter history and this is at once a great strength and sometimes a bit of a humorous weakness. Another reviewer shares my sentiments about the need for a history that is not at once a "ra-ra Traditional let's go America!" history that so plauged the teaching of history in high school and also the plain revulsion at the agenda drenched and boringly liberal Zinn's "People's History" Bailey interjects insightful phrases like America's new "coca-colinizing" of the world in modern times but saves his use of language not only for acerbic wit but also for praiseworthy figures.
This history really is perfect for high school students who are at once not historians but looking for a beginner to moderately advanced study in American history. This history is the perfect read along with your currect AP textbook or serves as a great textbook itself- combining the perfect mix of social, military and political history. I found that a particularly strong section of the book came in the chapters covering changing social and political landsacapes during the time period the covering the administrations from Harding through Rosevelt and up to WWII. Other strong sections were those on the New Immigration and on the Gilded Age. I highly recommend this history.
Rating: 5
Summary: A terrific survey of the REAL American History
Comment: I read this book first in high school several years ago as part of an advanced placement U.S. History course. I hated it then - but love it now. Bailey captures the depth of the issues the nation faced in each step of its development. His accuracy and profound insight keep the subject matter from becoming too dry. What I loved most about the text is that it never over-simplifies the significant historical events such as the political struggles of the 1st and 2nd continental congresses, secession issues and America's position in both World Wars. He digs deep beneath the surface to paint a thorough understanding of what the root causes were of historic events. The 10th addition adds interesting subsections that profile the various immigrant cultures that influenced American history. I recommend this book to anyone who wants to understand the nation's history and the people who made it.
Rating: 2
Summary: Kinda sucks
Comment: No, I'm not some ultraconservative saying that this book has a huge leftist bent, because it doesn't. For example, while in the final chapters it focuses more on the negative impacts of Reagan's economic program than the positive ones, it also talks about how the idea of New World discoverers simply being savage murderers of perfectly innocent, starry-eyed Indians is an exaggeration - so, while the former could be described as a leftist bent, the latter could be described as a rightist bent. But anyway, the true reason this book is obnoxious is because...well...it's obnoxious! Cheesy phrases like "oil, the black milk of the world's economy" abound, and the book seems to obsessively focus on issues such as women's rights, almost like they're required by law to include information about minorities and women every X pages. I'm not saying that white men own the history of America, but it could've flowed better.
This book is also anything but objective, but the biases seem to go both ways at times.
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Title: The American Pageant Complete Guidebook by Thomas Bailey, David M. Kennedy ISBN: 0669350354 Publisher: Not Avail Pub. Date: 01 October, 1993 List Price(USD): $38.36 |
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Title: The American Pageant Guidebook: A Manual for Students by Thomas A. Bailey, David M. Kennedy, Lizabeth Cohen, Mel Piehl ISBN: 0669451169 Publisher: Not Avail Pub. Date: 01 June, 1999 List Price(USD): $29.26 |
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Title: A History of the American People by Paul M. Johnson ISBN: 0060930349 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 01 March, 1999 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: The American Spirit by Thomas Andrew Bailey, David M. Kennedy ISBN: 039587100X Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company Pub. Date: 30 July, 1997 List Price(USD): $47.56 |
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Title: The American Spirit: United States History As Seen by Contemporaries to 1877 by David M. Kennedy, Thomas Bailey, David Kennedy, Thomas Andrew Bailey ISBN: 0618122176 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company Pub. Date: 01 November, 2001 List Price(USD): $47.56 |
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