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I really liked this book and its premise/purpose. As a prolific reviewer of history works for over 30 years now, Mr. Wood has some well-defined opinions and perspectives about how history writing has varied over the years. Rather than lecturing us, he just submits 21 reviews that he wrote from the late 1980s until the early 2000s. I had read a handful of the books he reviewed and so was interested in what he thought about them from his perch as one of the premier experts in American History and a prolific writer himself. I appreciated as well his "Afterword" after each review. He also reviewed works that I have heard about and have had some interest in, which either renewed my interest in reading them or totally extinguished it.
My only knock is that this is not a book one sits down to ready by the fire for three hours. The 21 reviews are all different and after a while, a little taxing on someone like me, a serious amateur American history fan. Some of the points he made I think would be easily grasped and understood by practicing historians, but I frankly missed some.
I do highly recommend it, especially in these days of authors trying to impose today's mores and values to people doing the best they could in, say, 1787.
- Paperback: 323 pages
- Publisher: Penguin Books; Reprint edition (January 27, 2009)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0143115049
- ISBN-13: 978-0143115045
- Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.5 x 0.8 inches
- Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
- Customer Reviews: 26 customer reviews
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#451,282 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #15 in Political Bibliographies & Indexes
- #383 in Historiography (Books)
- #9 in Legal Bibliographies & Indexes
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