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Weighty but not encyclopedic, argumentative but never overbearing, this monumental work of scholarship deserves pride of place in any historical collection that values reasonably argued discussion and deeply researched history.
Grandin's own ideas are in plain view; however, that should not distance readers interested in American history and the frontier from this insightful book.
Grandin will win no friends among Kissinger supporters, yet this book will find its audience among political scientists, historians, and informed readers attempting to assess the statesman's complex legacy. Alistair Horne's Kissinger and Jeremi Suri's Henry Kissinger and the American Century offer more favorable views of Kissinger, the diplomat.
This is an important history of slavery and the slave trade that chronicles what happened to the small percentage of slaves (400,000 out of 10.7 million) who were shipped to U.S. ports. For scholars of slavery, race relations, and U.S. and Latin American history, as well as readers of Melville and 19th-century American studies. [See Prepub Alert, 8/1/13.]