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OVERVIEWFor many professional historians, writing splendid book reviews is their main method ofpublishing. Book reviews are just that—they are reviews. They are not chapter by chapterdescriptions of a books content.INSTRUCTIONSFor this assignment, Book Review List located in the Disscution Resoruces, review the book in500 to 600 words. Make sure that you are using Turabian citation for the book you reviewed. Ifyou use additional reviews they may be located using the online resources such as JSTOR or using the search engine Google Scholar. Make sure that you are sitingall additional reviews that you have used in your synthesis of their material.Be sure that you do the following in the review:1. At the top, include a complete bibliographic entry of the book reviewed.2. The review must be between 500 and 600 words3. Do not use footnotes of the book reviewed. Instead, you must use Turabian “name/date”format in a parenthetical citation. Ex. (Wilson, 79).4. Citations of consulted reviews should be done through Turabian-formatted footnotes.5. Summarize the author’s thesis.6. Explain what evidence the author relies upon to support the thesis.7. Analyze the author’s argument, logic, coherence, and application. You are welcome to findfault if it exists. Pay attention to other reviews, and how they handle books on a similar topic.When you use any analysis gained from any other review, cite the review in a footnote.8. Conclude with an encouraging statement. All too often, book reviews are nasty. Find at least1 positive thing about the book.
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