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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 973
EAN: 9780618332687
Edition: 6
ISBN: 0618332685
Label: Wadsworth Publishing
Manufacturer: Wadsworth Publishing
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 624
Publication Date: March 03, 2003
Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing
Studio: Wadsworth Publishing

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Editorial Review:

Product Description:


The Brief American Pageant retains the vivid chronological narrative of its full-length counterpart, focusing on the great public debates that have dominated American history. Colorful anecdotes, first-person quotations, and the parent text's trademark wit are all evident in the brief version.



Engaging features draw students into the narrative, improving comprehension and increasing their interest in the material. "Varying Viewpoints" features explore the scholarly debates surrounding major historical issues, encouraging students to think critically about ways in which historians disagree. "Makers of America" essays focus on the diverse ethnic, racial, and activist groups that compose America's pluralistic society.

• New! Updated coverage of recent events includes a new section at the end of the last chapter called "The American Prospect in the Age of Terrorism."
• New! The authors reduced the total number of chapters to 42 by combining several chapters and streamlining material. The reorganization tightens the book's chronology and highlights a thematic update of the antebellum and Gilded Age/Progressive era periods.
• New! The authors integrated more coverage of hot research topics into the new edition, including immigration, women's political participation, the environmental movement, American Indians, and western history. Throughout the text, social topics are thoroughly integrated into the political narrative.
• New! All chapters now start with introductory paragraphs that provide a bridge into the chapter narrative.
• David Kennedy and Lizabeth Cohen, two of America's most prominent historians, bring the book's scholarship up to date while preserving the trademark writing style of late author Thomas Bailey. Mel Piehl, an experienced abridging editor, carefully prunes the manuscript, rewriting passages to reduce detail while preserving the successful approach of the full-length book.
• Pedagogy includes chapter-ending chronologies, numerous interesting quotes from historical figures, and incisive part openers that contextualize the six major periods of American history for students—"Founding the New Nation," "Building the New Nation," "Testing the New Nation," "Forging an Industrial Society," "Struggling for Justice at Home and Abroad," and "Making Modern America."
• The Appendix includes "Suggested Readings" for every chapter, an annotated Constitution of the United States with page references, and an extensive statistical profile of the United States.

Rating: - Biased and narrow
I teach AP and Dual Credit classes and inherited this book when I joined the district. I flipped through out of curiosity before school started and found it to be a typical high school text book. Getting into the year, my students came into tutoring with questions about the book, specifically the text. They couldn't understand it and after I started reading it closer, I realized I had trouble reading it. The text is confusing and overly complex. It is designed for AP students in high school, ... Read More

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Rating: - easy to read but too much useless info
I can honestly say that reading/learning this book thoroughly helped me get a 4 on the AP exam. It was easy to read too.

However, it was pretty annoying to sift through A LOT of useless information in the book. There was one chapter where they took up a fourth of a page to describe Andrew Jackson's HAIR COLOR and physical features.

In the chapter about the salem witch trials, they actually felt it necessary to tell you that 2 dogs died in the witch hunt.
etc.

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Rating: - Slightly dissapointing.
Although this textbook serves as a good introduction to US History, it is difficult to gather much actual information from the text. In an attempt to increase readability, the authors rarely mention dates or locations of important events, leading to confusion. A timeline at the end of each chapter helps to alleviate this problem, but it is nevertheless annoying. On the plus side, many small jokes are inserted throughout the chapters and help the reader to stay awake while reading about the especially ... Read More

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Rating: - waste of time
I am using The American Pageant in my AP US History class and feel that my knowledge of history is not as good as it could be, and I am very underprepared for the AP test because of "Pageant" being my only source of the information.

The book is frustrating. It uses roundabout language instead of giving you the facts (for instance, saying "every elected occupant of the White House" instead of "every president"). It is very difficult to figure out what it is trying to tell you.

The ... Read More

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Rating: - Terrible
This is one of the worst textbooks i have ever used. The book uses lame metaphors. The style of writing is also horrible. It is very hard to understand and has a lot of "fluff" information. I do not suggest any AP US history students to read this for the AP exam.

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