This Very Short Introduction is ... fluidly written, remarkably comprehensive, and accessible to those unfamiliar with United States history.
Andrew Preston is Professor of American History at Cambridge University. He is the author of Sword of the Spirit, Shield of Faith: Religion in American War and Diplomacy and The War Council: McGeorge Bundy, the NSC, and Vietnam. He is also the co-editor of Nixon in the World: U.S. Foreign Relations, 1969-1977; America in the World: A History in Documents from the War with Spain to the War on Terror; Faithful Republic: Religion and Politics in the 20th Century United States; and Outside In: The Transnational Circuitry of U.S. History.