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This one-volume history - from early British colonization to the fall of President Nixon - captures all the vivid personalities and events as well as the broad sweep of America's triumphant progress. Hugh Brogan looks at the period leading to Independence from the American and British points of view, explores the permanent features, both good and bad, of the "American character" and produces a synthesis of all the current research to show how the USA developed so rapidly from small beginnings to global dominance.
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The epitome of a thoughtful work for a non-specialist audience. Wise, witty, ironic, sophisticated, and extremely well-written.
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If you only read one book on American history...
25. Januar 2004
Format:Taschenbuch
you could not do better than Hugh Brogan's. Not only is it immensely readable (and yes, funny) but, contrary to the comments of other reviewers, his outsider's perspective makes this book even more valuable to American readers. His balanced analysis of critical episodes in American history and their relation to broader trends in world history gives the reader a sense of the interdependency of historical development, something all too often absent from American textbooks. Most importantly, his passionate, though never craven, defence of European Enlightenment thinking, so critical in shaping the essence of American political thought and the philosophical underpinnings of its constitutional framework, is essential if one is to truly grasp the causal factors behind the world's first anti-colonial revolution. There can be no doubt, regardless of the temptation to view the period and its ideas through post-modern eyes, the political figures of the time, whether Tory or Whig, Loyalist or Rebel believed in their respective ideas. A failure to understand this simple fact results in a fundamental failure to grasp the great themes of the 18th century and those that have followed. Hugh Brogan's work should be celebrated wherever free people value what truly makes them free.
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Kindle Edition is Plagued With Typos and Formatting Problems
6. Mai 2011
Format:Kindle Edition|Von Amazon bestätigter Kauf
I gave this book 4 stars because it is an excellent single volume book of United States history. I'll let others criticize the content, I want to focus on the formatting and spelling issues.
Publishers like Penguin and Bantam are starting to move into the ebook market, and this is a good thing. There's no shortage of classics being dumped into the market place by amateurs looking to make a quick dollar. These books are either quickly packaged volumes from free digital libraries, or scanned from library volumes, and given a quick massage.
What is so frustrating is that publishers like Penguin are rushing some of their books to market with very little in the way of proof reading. This book is a prime example of that. For example, the year 1860 always appears as i860. There are inexplicable page breaks and juxtapositions of words. This book also frequently quotes passages from source documents. The quoted passages appear in the same exact font as the main text does. This can be a source of confusion.
Honestly, I don't think the digital version of this book was proof-read at all.
Penguin is going to have to get its act together, or they will find it very hard to sell much of their catalog in the new ebook marketplace. I still recommend this book, because there is a paucity of single volume United States histories available for the Kindle at this time. Still, it has its maddening moments, and it makes one cautious about buying other ebooks from Penguin, when you can buy nearly free ebooks of the same titles (that in some cases are more carefully edited than the ebooks Penguin is putting out).
Publishers like Penguin and Bantam are starting to move into the ebook market, and this is a good thing. There's no shortage of classics being dumped into the market place by amateurs looking to make a quick dollar. These books are either quickly packaged volumes from free digital libraries, or scanned from library volumes, and given a quick massage.
What is so frustrating is that publishers like Penguin are rushing some of their books to market with very little in the way of proof reading. This book is a prime example of that. For example, the year 1860 always appears as i860. There are inexplicable page breaks and juxtapositions of words. This book also frequently quotes passages from source documents. The quoted passages appear in the same exact font as the main text does. This can be a source of confusion.
Honestly, I don't think the digital version of this book was proof-read at all.
Penguin is going to have to get its act together, or they will find it very hard to sell much of their catalog in the new ebook marketplace. I still recommend this book, because there is a paucity of single volume United States histories available for the Kindle at this time. Still, it has its maddening moments, and it makes one cautious about buying other ebooks from Penguin, when you can buy nearly free ebooks of the same titles (that in some cases are more carefully edited than the ebooks Penguin is putting out).
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Short(ish) and Succint
8. Dezember 2001
Format:Taschenbuch
Packed with diverting insights and miscellaneous facts, this general history of the US is notable for its sweep, its sensibility and erudition. If you feel the need to understand the various periods in American, the central economic and political factors which drive the continuity and change from one period to another, this shortened history does an excellent job.
A couple of interesting facts: Tammany Hall was named after the Indian chief Tammany, who gave William Penn land to start his colony. Tammany gave Penn all the land he could walk in three days. Penn stopped after a day and a half and thanked Tammany for his generosity. But the next generation of Pennsylvanians organized a relay race and grabbed as much land as they could in the day and half that follwed. And the work bunk, or bunkum comes from a representative from South Carolina, who in the House of Representatives, delivered a long speech dealing only with local concerns, boring his fellows politicos. He apologized later, saying that the speech was intended only for "Buncum County."
Brogan is particularly adept at drawing incisive portraits of American presidents and leaders. Abraham Lincoln, who may be the most written about American President, is here given new life by Brogan as a man who was a sharp politician, ambitious, steeped in the give and take of democracy -- a side of Lincoln sometimes overlooked in oher biographies. His portraits of Carter, Nixon and Reagan are also insightful.
Great reading for the average reader and the history enthusiast and scholar as well. The average reader will appreciate the grace and insight with which he tells the big story, the history enthusiast and scholar will appreciate the odd details, and Brogran's often tangy slant on America and Americans
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