The history of the American nation in Johnson's submission is all the more dramatic because the English historian is trying to capture a struggle for the character and meaning of American culture. Unlike today's revisionists who claim that the United States is only a conglomerate of racial and national groups without jointly shared culture, or those who claim that Americans are only a political nation, the author is convinced of the specific importance of religious and cultural Anglo -American signs that have evolved since the arrival of the first settlers to today. The reviewers generally agree that no American could write it straightforwardly, straightforwardly.