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Andrey Davydov
It's a very fast-paced read as far as history books go. Not a lot of dates or minutiae, few footnotes. Even if you frequently check out the people and events mentioned in the book on the net, you can still easily get back into the narrative. It reads like a description of a setting in a PC game.
Katherine
I would say it's one of the faster, more readable history/non-fiction books I've read. I breezed through this as fast as I do a lot of fiction books.
Elizabeth Burton
As with a great many nonfiction books, the probable best answer is: it depends. The author's style is easy to read and nonacademic. However, the subject matter isn't something that can be properly addressed without providing detail some readers will find burdensome, since the author has to provide sufficient historical background to support his thesis.
However, it's also a book you can read for a bit, wander off to something else, and come back to, as Mr. Woodard has done a good job of keeping things that belong together in their place and offers small reminders as he goes along to refresh the memory.
However, it's also a book you can read for a bit, wander off to something else, and come back to, as Mr. Woodard has done a good job of keeping things that belong together in their place and offers small reminders as he goes along to refresh the memory.
Nemanja Sh
The book gives you a general overview of how each distinctive region of the United States developed. It provides you with names, historic data... which is in a way a starting point for you to continue your research in the direction that interests you.
I would highly recommend the book.
I would highly recommend the book.
Charmi
It's a slog, but well worth it.
Hannah Lincoln
Clip compared to most history books.
Vivian Sanders
It's social history. Yeah there are lots of names and dates, but the point is that it's readable, well written, definitely not textbook history. This is the story of cultures immigrating to a new world (new to them anyway) and migrating across the continent and carrying their cultures with them. Almost entirely eliminating many of the existing cultures in their path. It is one of the stories of how we got to where we are as peoples and it makes room for the interweaving of all of the various other cultures and subcultures, and how they co-exist in some cases and clash or ignore each other in other cases. If you aren't interested in ethno-geo-cultural history, its a slog.
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