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Title: Americas History by James A. Henretta, David Brody, Susan Ware ISBN: 0-312-19396-3 Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's Pub. Date: March, 2000 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $132.50

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Average Customer Rating: 3.5 (8 reviews)

Rating: 2
Summary: boring, the fifth edition is better
Comment: I love history and am a history minor, and yet I had a hard time reading this book. It did not devote much time to the Twenties or the Great Depression and spent too much time on the 1940's and the cold war. I had the opportunity to read the fifth edition of this book, the 2004 edition, and the fifth edition is far better. It appears to be completely rewritten and makes more sense. It also spend more time on each area of history. The fourth edition, to put it bluntly, stinks.

Rating: 5
Summary: Comprehensive and detailed
Comment: American history can best be understood if the fundamental conditions that control both the social lives of ordinary people and the practice of politics are investigated through the decades. This means moving beyond conventional ways of organizaing a book around political events that historians like to think of as "turning points". Social change has a pace and rhythm of its own, and understaning its flow enables us to see poliitical changes in a new light.

The authors have divided American history into three unique periods: Preindustrial America, from the beginning of the sixteenth century to the 1820s; Industrializing America, from the 1820s to the 1920s; and State and Society, from the 1920s to the present. Each of these periods has its own logic and contains special kinds of human relationships that prodice a distinct history of the United States.

Rating: 4
Summary: America's History 3rd edition review
Comment: I bought this book for my AP US history summer assignment, and although i've only read the first 10 chapters of this book i think it is very comprehensive and has many quality features. This is definitely a good book for history teachers and students.

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