The Great Republic, Volume One: A History of the American People

by Bernard Bailyn

Book Overview

The Great Republic aims to narrate and interpret American history around a central structure of several overarching themes: the reconciling of majority and minority interests in governing the body... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0669209864
• ISBN13: 9780669209860
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: D. C. Heath and Co.
• Length: 723 Pages
• Weight: 2.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Great history text book

If you are seeking a balanced yet interpretive and thourgh version of the story of America I do not think one can do better than this book. The authors somehow have managed to bring exceptional detail and analysis of how the United States came fom early colonization by Europeans right up to the very recent past while leaving out obvious bias and were still able to make the narative exciting and compelling. I teach history and, although The Great Republic is written at too high of a level to be of much use in my at-risk-kids high school classroom, it has proved itself invaluable to me as a reference work. I read it cover to cover. If you are an American History nut this book belongs in your library as the definitive general reference text.