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He was very happy with the book
The product is very high quality sturdy hard cover and a great read by paul johnson
The great awakening also championed the “inner light” and evinced millennial yearnings and ultimately set the stage for the gen... Read More
Johnson also discusses the secularizationliberalization of mainline protestantism and contrasts the precipitously declining mem... Read More
Price
The early part is worth the price alone in its coverage of native americans and slavery
Competitiveness
Conservative readers will obviously feel more “at home” here than their liberal counterparts and will find this book a useful resource
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- This product had a total of 466 reviews as of our last analysis date on Oct 15 2020.
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There is no better way to view us than through the lens of a foreign scholar
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This book covers everything you need to know about us history stating from columbus colonization period up to bill clintons administration
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And yet i continue to keep it close and to read a few pages at a time or sometimes only a few paragraphs stopping to let the sentences resound in my head and the meaning of the words sink into me
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This is history as literature and i am not embarrassed only slightly sad to say that no american writer alive today could come close to writing the history of my country as the englishman paul johnson did
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Instead its the real facts warts and all in context of the times they happened in
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For example he argues that the problem with vietnam was that we werent aggressive enough that fdr may have actually caused the great depression to last longer than it should have and that nixon was unfairly targeted by the media from day one
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Paul johnson will intentionally omit facts to paint the world in his own view
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Very biased but still an important read