The Unfinished Nation: A Concise History of the American People: Volume 1: To 1877

by Alan Brinkley

Book Overview

Known for its balanced voice and approachable scholarship, Alan Brinkley's best-selling The Unfinished Nation offers a concise, yet thorough survey of American History appropriate for students at all... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0077286359
• ISBN13: 9780077286354
• Release Date: December 2009
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Langua
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.4" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

The Unfinished Nation

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Outstanding Textbook

This is a clear and well balanced textbook offering great insight into the many forces that created the USA.

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The best available narrative history of the US.

Alan Brinkley has put together a wonderfully readable, balanced, and thorough history of the US, in just under a thousand pages. It would be ideal for college introductory classes (or very sophisticated high school students); particularly welcome are the selections from primary sources ("American Voices") that often represent other-than-white-male views, but include William Bradford on landing at Plymouth and Nixon on China, and the dozen or so segments called "Debating the Past" that reviw the differing perspectives historians have taken on such topics as slavery, populism, and Viet Nam. I have been a teacher for a quarter of a century, and this is the book I wish I'd had all that time