“Timely, thoughtful and meticulously researched … recreates the battles in impressively painstaking detail.”
— Jonathan Mahler, The New York Times Book Review, June 18, 2006
[Robert Asahina writes with] “a welcome degree of detachment and honesty. There is no sermonizing or breast-beating here, just clear facts. Just Americans is a thought-provoking book that says a great deal about the ambiguities of America’s democratic legacy and the complex issues of American national identity.”
— Richard Overy, The Washington Post, June 4, 2006