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The Reader's Companion to American History Hardcover – January 1, 1991
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- Print length1248 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherHoughton Mifflin Harcourt
- Publication dateJanuary 1, 1991
- Dimensions8.25 x 2.75 x 10.25 inches
- ISBN-100395513723
- ISBN-13978-0395513729
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- Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (January 1, 1991)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 1248 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0395513723
- ISBN-13 : 978-0395513729
- Item Weight : 4.94 pounds
- Dimensions : 8.25 x 2.75 x 10.25 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #420,416 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #338 in History Encyclopedias
- #13,078 in United States History (Books)
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It's really jam-packed with info and well written. I did some sample searches in it (I have the Kindle version) on topics like Frederick Douglass, the Triangle Factory Fire, Susan B. Anthony, etc. and thought that the commentary for each topic was well written and gave an excellent overview.
In my opinion, this book is underpriced. It's A MUST for history buffs! Highly recommended!
As to it's content, I found its historical entries *extremely useful* and the articles excellent (e.g. personages, John Adams, Clarence Darrow; British Parliamentary Acts against the colonies: Stamp Act, Townshend, Act; Supreme Court decisions, Marbury vs Madison, Roe vs Wade), but I question its inclusion of singers, such as Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra; or even authors, such as Saul Bellow (who's from Canada); or artists, such as choreographer, George Balanchine, and composer, Irving Berlin. To me, the book is trying to be too many things to too many people, especially now that we can get so much information online (My laptop weighs less than the book!).
For readers whose homes come equipped with large libraries, "The Reader's Companion" is just the thing. If you live in a small apartment where space is limited (or if you have a dicky back), you might want to consult the vast resources out in cyberspace!
They weigh far less!
In the two hundred years since Tecumseh was providing native political leadership, the United States became a global superpower able to impose electronic piracy on everything the U-2 flights that became public in May 1960, when President Eisenhower took responsibility for what America does to "secure and evaluate military intelligence." (p. 1093). I had a teacher who believed you too was an expression for a world in which each side has to snoop in order to protect its future from mass destruction. The symmetry which existed between competing superpowers now has numbers in advanced plastication of financial transactions for burn rate fantasies that might be avoiding detection in secret creative destruction that gives our future a surprise party flash mob moon glow.
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It is not worth buying or reading.
Avoid!!!!



