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A Short History of the United States
Written by Edward Channing
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Channing's best known work, A History of the United States, is regarded as one of the most complete and accurate accounts of American history and received the 1926 Pulitzer Prize for History. (Summary from Wikipedia)
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The narrator's mispronunciation can be off-putting. Jesuits are not Jay-suits - not in any place in the world and that's just one example.
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