America: The Story of Us Book Review by ChristineMM

Title: America The Story of Us an Illustrated History
Author: Kevin Baker
Publication: A&E Television Networks, History,  2010
Produced by: Melcher Media

My Star Rating: 5 stars out of 5

Summary Statement: Chronological Survey of American History with Many Visuals; For Adults, Teens or Read-Aloud by Parents to Younger Kids






This is the companion book to a documentary mini-series AMERICA THE STORY OF US that aired on A&E's History Channel in the spring of 2010.

This book is written to an adult audience and is fine for teens or even upper middle school students. For kids it would serve best as a read-aloud for family study or for homeschooling families.

The book is loaded with visuals ranging from drawn illustrations to historical photographs or facsimilies of historical documents, and maps. Each two page spread has at least one whole page of graphics and some are comprised of two thirds images to text ratio.

The book moves at a good pace and never gets boring.  The time period covered goes from the arrival of the colonial settlers to 2010 including the election of President Barack Obama, who also penned the introduction. The content does not candy coat history either; hard topics such as the treatment of Native Americans, slavery, and poverty in the early 1900s is covered.

This book is now a part of my family's library about American history and we are using it in our homeschool studies.

I love the chronological arrangement of historical events and all the visuals and the interesting text, therefore this book has earned a rating of 5 stars = I Love It.



Disclosure: I received a review copy of this book from the publicist: Jane Wesman Public Relations with an agreement to blog my review. I was not coerced to write a favorable review nor was I paid to write this review.