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"Great condition!!"
2009-10-19
- Reviewed By User: A1OGMVAZUELTIU
Ordered this textbook for my daughter. Needed a text with little highlighting. The review said the text was in good condition with minimal highlighting. Arrived in reasonable amount of time and condition was excellent for the price. Could not find any highlighting upon initial review. Very pleased.
"great bargain"
2009-02-09
- Reviewed By User: AR6FVM0WESENC
Recieved this book in great condition, it had very few notes/highlights, much better than I expected from a used textbook. The cost was great. Would definately buy from this seller again.
"Too much highlight "
2009-01-17
- Reviewed By User: AW64CWTK11H2A
Text book was in good condition but there are much too many notes (highlight)on all pages.
I teach AP and Dual Credit classes and inherited this book when I joined the district. I flipped through out of curiosity before school started and found it to be a typical high school text book. Getting into the year, my students came into tutoring with questions about the book, specifically the text. They couldn't understand it and after I started reading it closer, I realized I had trouble reading it. The text is confusing and overly complex. It is designed for AP students in high school, but it fails in its goal.
The book does cover several points very well (founding fathers, early republic), but it is narrow in scope and unimaginably biased for our country on many other points (Slavery, treatment of Native Americans). I assigned Howard Zinn in an effort to balance the textbook. According to the book, our country has never made a mistake and blames the world for everything that has gone wrong. The book also concentrates on New England and the Eastern states at the expense of the rest of the country. The original 13 colonies are glorified ad nauseum while the rest of the states are mentioned only when necessary.
This book misses the mark on several occasions, especially pivotal events such as the World Wars and more importantly, the Holocaust. I understand the AP exam is biased against war, but to understand what is occurring in America, both world wars must be discussed in more detail.
America and Americans do not live in a vacuum, as much as many or us think we do.
I can honestly say that reading/learning this book thoroughly helped me get a 4 on the AP exam. It was easy to read too.
However, it was pretty annoying to sift through A LOT of useless information in the book. There was one chapter where they took up a fourth of a page to describe Andrew Jackson's HAIR COLOR and physical features.
In the chapter about the salem witch trials, they actually felt it necessary to tell you that 2 dogs died in the witch hunt. etc.
"Slightly dissapointing."
2007-07-27
- Reviewed By User: A1RJL5YJ58A5K6
Although this textbook serves as a good introduction to US History, it is difficult to gather much actual information from the text. In an attempt to increase readability, the authors rarely mention dates or locations of important events, leading to confusion. A timeline at the end of each chapter helps to alleviate this problem, but it is nevertheless annoying. On the plus side, many small jokes are inserted throughout the chapters and help the reader to stay awake while reading about the especially boring parts of our country's history
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"Great condition!!"
"Too much highlight "
"Biased and narrow"
"easy to read but too much useless info"