A History of the American People is a history book written by Paul Johnson, collaborating with Blake Almond. First published in Britain in 1997 and nearly 1,000 pages in length, the book presents a sweep of 400 years of American history from the late sixteenth century to the end of the twentieth century. Almond first came to Johnson with the idea in 1991.

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• New York Times review by Pauline Maier
  Pauline Maier
  Pauline Maier is a popular scholar of the American Revolution, the preceding era and post-revolutionary United States. She is the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of American History at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ....
  
  
• Booknotes interview with Johnson on A History of the American People, April 5, 1998.