The title says it all. Here, Newcastle University professor Susan-Mary Grant gives an overview of US history in just 380 pages, from earliest times to President Obama's administration. I gave it a whirl, but put it down after reading 25%.
Grant packs her sentences with content and qualifiers that make themes difficult to grasp. (At one point, I likened it to a Pauline epistle. I'll study word by word in the Bible . . . not in a history book.) As an overview, I hoped to get a general idea of what happened; elements of that exist here, but they're too difficult to extract. My quest continues for an American history book similar in style to The Usborne History of Britain.
Rating: B
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