Customer Reviews

A People and a Nation (Brief Seventh Edition)

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I teach a U.S. History course for a local college and have utilized this textbook in conjunction with more substantive books that provide deeper assessment and critical analysis of historical events. While this text is good for a survey course, I would not recommend it for a history student who wants to delve into a more nuanced and robust analysis of U.S. History. The tone and pace is what one might expect from a textbook, laborious to read and monotone in prose. One nice aspect is the introduction of controversial topics throughout the text. While the book does not provide an expansive background of the more controversial topics, it does provide a satisfactory introduction that can lead to a more in-depth review from other sources of both primary and secondary nature.

In some instances, the information on certain events is very brief and kind of leaves you wanting more. Understandably, there is a lot of info that needs to be put into this text, but I would have liked to see more information on some incidents. Also, I have found a lot of typos, which I think is strange.

This is a required text for one of my classes this semester so I am not going to get TOO excited about it obviously, but I loved the fact that Amazon had the paperback version and I loved how much money I saved verses the school bookstore or other websites. The book itself is very easy reading and holds my interest for the most part.

There is a lot of factual information in this book I enjoyed it, of course our professor made it even more interesting.

it's good but dry in the reading. it's a required text book for one of my classes.

Came even faster than all my other orders that I made at the same time. Great service and would recommend this seller to anyone! =) very satisfied.

I am a high school student who just recieved this book for the year. The teacher claims that it is a college level text book, and after a few nights of reading, i agree with him. This stuff is really hard to read. It reads somewhat similarly to a primary source, very wordy with very long sentences. It is very hard to concentrate while reading, so it is vital to take notes while reading. My class and i agree that 10 pages takes about an hour with notes. And it is hard to take notes out too because it is difficult to pick out the most important information.