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<p>Just wondering...</p>
<p>American Pageant...most boring book ever.</p>
<p>I think all APUSH are required / use the American Pageant. Kind of like the Bedford Reader for AP Lang.</p>
<p>What about Brinkley:</a> American History: A Survey, 10/e</p>
<p>Alan Brinkley's American History: A Survey</p>
<p>Our school uses American Pageant (and the Norton Reader for AP English).</p>
<p>Um, American Pageant is certainly not the required text. In fact, it's probably not even the best one. However, anyone who thinks that it's the "most boring book ever" has obviously NOT been paying attention. I couldn't have asked for a more entertaining textbook. Where else could I have learned which of our former presidents went skinny-dipping in the Potomac? Where else would I have read the sentence, "It had struck sex o'clock in America"? NOWHERE, my friends. I may not have learned anything from it, but o! my fine days with The American Pageant at my side were some of the best in my life.</p>
<p>Alan Brinkley's American History: A Survey</p>
<p>Actually for AP US we use: The National Experience, 9th Edition, Harcourt Brace, 1992.</p>
<p>We use the American Pageant for American Studies I Honors....</p>
<p>Arther Schlesinger quotes himself in The National Experience.</p>
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<p>Yeah I don't really pay attention....</p>
<p>History= bleh</p>
<p>American Pageant!</p>
<p>And I second that it is NOT boring at all. At least, it was waaaaaaaaay better than the regular US History textbook we used. (I self-studied APUSH, so I got to compare.)</p>
<p>American Pageant! I admit that some passages made me lol</p>
<p>last year we used a book called "Out of Many". It was ok, kinda dull and i felt like my amsco book did a better job in teaching me. i dunno thats just me though.</p>
<p>American Pageant is a much nicer read than Traditions and Encounters... although a lot of that is probably the subject (World History - learn ALL of human history that has EVER happened in 1 year! Ha.)</p>
<p>Here are some quotes from American Pageant I copied from someone who posted them on CC. (can't remember who or where, sorry)</p>
<p>"Jackson men also hit below the belt...He was even accused of having procured a servant girl for the lust of the Russian tsar-- in short, of having served as a pimp."</p>
<p>"Americans did not feel they could offend the tsar by hurling his walrus-covered icebergs back in his face."</p>
<p>"The physical growth of New York was correspondingly retarded."</p>
<p>"What nation in its right mind, they reasoned, would refuse so lavish a dowry? The radiant Texan bride, officially petitioning for annexation in 1837, presented herself for marriage. But the expectant groom, Uncle Sam, was jerked back by the black hand of slavery."</p>
<p>"What other power would have spurned the imperial domain of Texas? The bride was so near, so rich, so fair, so willing...Nine long years were surely a decent wait between the beginning of the courtship and the consummation of the marriage"</p>
<p>"Forming a strong attachment for the Filipinos, he [William Taft] called them his 'little brown brothers' and danced light footedly with their tiny women"</p>
<p>"Seemingly the farmer had only to tickle the soil with a hoe, and it would laugh with a harvest."</p>
<p>"Babies went unborn as pinched budgets and sagging self-esteem wrought a sexual depression in American bedrooms."</p>
<p>"They claimed that the sickly Europe was indeed vomiting on America "the wretched refuse of its teeming shore"</p>
<p>"To many Americans, the Japanese were getting too big for their kimonos."</p>
<p>"This so-called dream of loveliness, which was visited by 27 million people, did much to raise American artistic standards and promote city planning, although many of the spectators were attracted primarily by the contortions of a hootchy-kootchy dancer, 'Little Egypt.'"</p>
<p>American Pageant ftw. I love the very, lets say: peculiar, writing style.</p>
<p>Since I'm taking AS US History, it's United States: 1776-1992</p>
<p>I still don't understand how people can have an attention span long enough to sustain most of the boring reading to get to the more interesting facts...sigh.</p>
<p>Our main textbook is called "Give Me Liberty!"</p>
<p>We also have a supplementary book called "The Radical and the Republican"</p>
<p>Bailey's "American Pageant!" Quite a colorful read. </p>
<p>Plus our teacher recommended we all buy this book:</p>
<p>We have the American Pageant, too. It may not be required for APUSH, but I believe it is by far the most popular textbook choice. The writing style often annoys me greatly.</p>