from HistReader

I am reluctant to write an unfavorable review of this book because it was well researched, a fact proven, I believe, by the amount of information shared within; unfortunately, it was too rich in its scholarship. A better way to frame the problem would be to say A.J. Langguth covered too many topi...

from msaucier818

I found this book to be a difficult one to review. I feel like I learned a lot about the political history of America during the time of Jackson through Buhcanan, but felt that the book never truly had an identity. Much of it wanted to be a history of the Cherokee and the Trail of Tears. However,...

from Jared_Runck

“Driven West” is a fascinating piece of narrative history that attempts to add another layer of understanding to an appropriately thick description of the American Civil War. Though many attempts to argue for the importance of the cause of states' rights as a root of that conflict are largely vie...