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Give Me Liberty!: An American History, One-Volume Edition

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This text is indeed used for college history classes and is usually assigned in US survey classes that cover the colonial period to the present day. The amount and depth of material in the text is quite exceptional. The book includes chapter review pages, suggested readings and documents and tables. It also includes a generous amount of primary source documents, drawings and photographs, color maps and graphs. It is beautifully written and illustrated. It is expensive, but this is the case for all large survey texts and college lab books.
It is troubling to me that an individual would "review" a book they have never read and would disparage college professors for assigning the appropriate text for a class. Clearly, this individual does not understand the distinction between college texts and popular history books.

I bought the wrong book, but my friend needed it so I sold it to him to break even. Supposedly a good book, but if its for class it does not matter whether it is good or bad.

I bought this for a US history class that required I buy 3 different books (all included in this one-volume-edition) I saved hundreds because there is a new edition. I could not notice a difference, it was never an issue. My thought was that if it ever became an issue I was only out a few dollars... Food for thought, the textbook industry is a sham.

Item was much better than described! A little slow to ship, but was well worth the wait. Thanks so much!

I have not read this book and won't at its $95 price (plus whatever special shipping amounts to).

I'm puzzled as to the author's intended audience for this book, given that pricing. Contrast that with Foner's other book, American Freedom, which is a little less than half as many pages yet costs only $16.95 in hardcover($11.93 with free Amazon shipping). Same publisher. What publishing dynamic is going on here? Is this volume intended just for colleges, where overpriced textbooks are the norm and can be forced onto students?