Review of The Good War: An Oral History of World War II by Studs Terkel

In this book review, a student discusses different aspects of the book The Good War by Studs Terkel. The student notes that Terkel's work covers the views of a variety of Americans towards World War II but that the work has a limited scope since it does not account for the perspectives of people belonging to other nations.

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"You provide plenty of meaningful analysis of the book, and it's commendable that you are able to point out both its strengths and weaknesses. Your essay would be a lot stronger though with an edit to address writing convention errors, especially problems with subject-verb agreement and sentence structure. Sometimes your tone is too informal; remember that words such as "kinda" should be written as "kind of" in academic essays. Proper nouns such as "Pearl Harbor" should be capitalized, and book titles should be italicized, not placed in quotation marks. There are points in the essay where you've accidentally inserted two periods at the end of a sentence. In terms of content, it would be easier to keep track of your main points and absorb all your analysis if you reorganized your paragraphs so that they each only addressed one main topic. For example, your first body paragraph could be on the book's sources and thus potential biases, your second body paragraph could be on the book's organization (sections, chapter divisions, headings, etc.), and so on."

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Kibin. (2025). Review of the good war: an oral history of world war ii by studs terkel. http://www.kibin.com/essay-examples/review-of-the-good-war-an-oral-history-of-world-war-ii-by-studs-terkel-1ISeL9xk

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("Review of The Good War: An Oral History of World War II by Studs Terkel.")

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"Review of The Good War: An Oral History of World War II by Studs Terkel." Kibin, 2025, www.kibin.com/essay-examples/review-of-the-good-war-an-oral-history-of-world-war-ii-by-studs-terkel-1ISeL9xk

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"Review of The Good War: An Oral History of World War II by Studs Terkel." Kibin, 2025. http://www.kibin.com/essay-examples/review-of-the-good-war-an-oral-history-of-world-war-ii-by-studs-terkel-1ISeL9xk.