History Net: Where History Comes Alive - World & US History Online » American History Reviews http://www.historynet.com From the World's Largest History Magazine Publisher Sat, 25 May 2013 00:01:01 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Benjamin Harrison (Book Review) http://www.historynet.com/benjamin-harrison-book-review.htm http://www.historynet.com/benjamin-harrison-book-review.htm#comments Mon, 12 Jun 2006 20:11:47 +0000 HistoryNet Staff Reviewed by Michael Oppenheim for American History Magazine
By Charles W. Calhoun
Times Books, June 2005

Benjamin Harrison is the answer to a trivia question: Who is the only president (1889-93) whose predecessor and successor was the same man, Grover …

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By H.W. Brands
Doubleday, 2005

Andrew Jackson (1767-1845) was our most unlikable president: touchy, belligerent, prejudiced, poorly educated. The hatreds of his youth (Britain, banks, the Eastern establishment, Indians) stayed with him until his death. Yet …

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By David McCullough
Simon and Schuster, 2005

David McCullough's 1776 is one of those well-crafted popular histories that is certain to feature prominently on every history buff's reading list this summer. The Pulitzer Prize–winning biographer …

]]> http://www.historynet.com/1776-book-review.htm/feed 0 America Discovered: A Historical Atlas of Exploration (Book Review) http://www.historynet.com/america-discovered-a-historical-atlas-of-exploration-book-review.htm http://www.historynet.com/america-discovered-a-historical-atlas-of-exploration-book-review.htm#comments Mon, 12 Jun 2006 20:09:18 +0000 HistoryNet Staff Reviewed by Steven Martinovich
By Derek Hayes
Douglas & McIntyre, 2004

North America through the eyes of its explorers.

In July 1536, after years traversing the American Southwest, Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca arrived in Mexico City with three other …

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By David Hackett Fischer
Oxford University Press, 2004

Looking back on history, Americans tend to view the year 1776 through a Vaseline-coated lens. Determined to forge a new nation and throw off the shackles of British …

]]> http://www.historynet.com/washingtons-crossing-book-review.htm/feed 0 The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony That Shaped America (Book Review) http://www.historynet.com/the-island-at-the-center-of-the-world-the-epic-story-of-dutch-manhattan-and-the-forgotten-colony-that-shaped-america-book-review.htm http://www.historynet.com/the-island-at-the-center-of-the-world-the-epic-story-of-dutch-manhattan-and-the-forgotten-colony-that-shaped-america-book-review.htm#comments Mon, 12 Jun 2006 20:09:18 +0000 HistoryNet Staff Reviewed by Mike Oppenheim
By Russell Shorto
Doubleday, 2004

In 1609 Henry Hudson, an Englishman employed by Holland, sailed up his eponymous river past Albany. He didn't find a route to Asia, for which everyone yearned, but he did report …

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By Dennis M. Powers
Citadel Press, 2005

As the world rallies in support of the victims of the recent tsunami in Southeast Asia, attorney and author Dennis M. Powers reminds us …

]]> http://www.historynet.com/the-raging-sea-the-heroic-story-of-americas-worst-tidal-wave-book-review.htm/feed 0 His Excellency: George Washington (Book Review) http://www.historynet.com/his-excellency-george-washington-book-review.htm http://www.historynet.com/his-excellency-george-washington-book-review.htm#comments Mon, 12 Jun 2006 20:09:18 +0000 HistoryNet Staff Reviewed by Mike Oppenheim
By Joseph J. Ellis
Knopf, 2004

Among our founding fathers, Franklin was the wisest, Hamilton the most brilliant, Jefferson the most intellectual, Adams the greatest scholar and Madison the most sophisticated politician. Yet they all acknowledged …

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