<p>demter-i also have palmer for AP euro..we actually read it tho.</p>
<p>for APUSH we used a short history of the american nation by garraty. it was very poetic haha.</p>
<p>finally somebody else has garraty! i find that at times it's pretty silly/quotable.</p>
<p>"I personally like the immaturity of The American Pageant - the random metaphors make things more interesting when you read about boring dead guys."</p>
<p>Yes! My personal favorite line was something about Union and Confederate soldiers sitting down to a (figurative =D) "love feast."</p>
<p>And, thanks to the American Pageant, I will always remember that Polk didn't run for a second term because of his severe diarrhea.</p>
<p>^LOL</p>
<p>This was from the Brinkley book, but was it Zachary Taylor who died from indigestion after eating a hot dog at a Fourth of July celebration?</p>
<p>deenierah--haha yeah...i always remember the line that said something along the lines of "factories sprouted up like mushrooms after a spring rain"</p>
<p>american pageant</p>
<p>The American Nation by John Garraty and A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn.</p>
<p>My two favorites went something like this:</p>
<p>"Slavery was a cancer in the bosom of the south."</p>
<p>"The people flocked to the virgin bottomlands."</p>
<p>The American Pageant.
haha my favorite line was something like "The people were remarkably fertile, even if the soil was not."</p>
<p>i took it last year, but my school uses "A People and A Nation" by some lady named Norton.</p>
<p>it was ok...informative, but really really dry.</p>
<p>American Pageant:</p>
<p>"in came the sixties, rocking the baby cradle of social stability to sleep"
(or something)</p>
<p>actually brilliant.</p>
<p>I also love the line about how imperialism caused indigestion in America's stomach. Ha.</p>
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<p>That's so true.. And there are a couple of little notes where you know they're just trying to entertain themselves.</p>
<p>On an unrelated note, I accidentally took home a class-only copy of American Pageant (Which is in very bad shape). And.. it is to live in my house forever. My teacher never noticed. Mwahaha.</p>
<p>garraty. it's my baby.</p>
<p>America: Past and Present. It's long and dry. But I guess informative...we'll see how informative in May...</p>
<p>kalikula-- me too! a copy of garraty APPEARED in the locker i share with a friend...
me: by the way, i borrowed your apush book. just so you knew it didn't disappear.
her: dude, i thought that was yours. mine's at home.
me: nope. where the hell did we get an extra garraty from?
we're not complaining.</p>
<p>american pageant. pretty good book but their tests are specific as H3LL</p>