Barron's AP U.S. Government and Politics (Barron's AP United States Government & Politics)

I'm giving this three stars because it does appear to cover the subject information. However, this review book, like most Barron's books, really caters toward students who prefer comprehensive, in-depth summaries and are willing to invest a lot of time studying over a long period of time. It reads more like a simplified textbook than anything. Some points:

- It's very wordy. Very, very wordy. Most of the book is made up of headings followed by long blocks of text. Some sections seemed completely unnecessary. For example, there is a page that describes Obama's particular methods of appointing Cabinet members and who each of his Cabinet picks were. Considering that Obama is only three years into his first term (two at the time this book was published), I doubt he'll even show up on the test--so why bother including this at all?
- The key terms are not bolded. This was the most annoying thing about the book, aside from the wordiness. The author does include a list of...Read more

As an A.P. American Government teacher, I highly recommend this book. In fact, there are only three review books I allow my students to access, and this is one of them.

I needed to take the Praxis II Government/Political Science test in order to continue teaching US Government at High School. The Chapters matched the content of the test, while the end of chapter review questions and the two practice AP tests contained many questions that were similar (and a couple even duplicated) to the Praxis test questions.

A good source of review.