The work of Veremis is a sample of how the writing of history can be simultaneously simple and rich, human and scientific. With the continuous reflections he raises, he allows the reader to delve into the American phenomenon and understand the biases that certain myths generate about the USA...

Professor Veremis handles his material with academic diligence and interpretative skill, aided by his personal knowledge and experience of the USA, achieving the impossible: the distillation of two centuries of American history within 230 pages. The Puritan settlers, the creation of the state, the birth of the American nation, the ideological parameters of the Civil War, the conquest of the Wild West, domestic politics, and portraits of the Presidents...

In his study, Thanos Veremis highlights three endemic elements of the American socio-political and economic structure. First, liberal Lockeanism (the political philosophy of John Locke), second, the spirit of Protestantism, and third, American pragmatism...

...In an Hellenic way, the de-demonization. It is an excellent understanding of the fall of virtue from the “virtuous materialism” of Calvin’s successors across the Atlantic... A didactic history that interprets how capitalism and democracy are understood as the will of God that lubricates the machinery of production and the export of goods, values, and... war.

What a beautiful book on American history! It could become a textbook for American studies in Greek universities.