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A People's History of the United States - Howard Zinn

A People's History of the United States

By Howard Zinn

  • Release Date: 2010-01-26
  • Genre: History
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“A wonderful, splendid book—a book that should be read by every American, student or otherwise, who wants to understand his country, its true history, and its hope for the future.” —Howard Fast, author of Spartacus and The Immigrants
“[It] should be required reading.” —Eric Foner, New York Times Book Review

Library Journal calls Howard Zinn’s iconic A People's History of the United States “a brilliant and moving history of the American people from the point of view of those…whose plight has been largely omitted from most histories.” Packed with vivid details and telling quotations, Zinn’s award-winning classic continues to revolutionize the way American history is taught and remembered. Frequent appearances in popular media such as The Sopranos, The Simpsons, Good Will Hunting, and the History Channel documentary The People Speak testify to Zinn’s ability to bridge the generation gap with enduring insights into the birth, development, and destiny of the nation.

Reviews

  • A People History

    1
    By FICaz USA
    Complete and utter garbage and nonsense. Left wings nuts will love it as as it verifies their beliefs without a scrap of truth behind it.

  • Very informative; great read

    5
    By godzulu lx
    Very seldom do you come across a book that enlightens you, burdens you, uplifts you, and challenge you all at once. This is an educational trip for those who are proud to be students, ever learning, all the days of their lives.

  • A People's History

    5
    By DLBM7
    Every U. S. citizen should read this book!!!

  • Inaccurate & misleading!

    1
    By Chad M. Hutcheson
    While some of the 'history' in this book is true much of the information is highly misleading and anyone with a high school diploma should be able to realize that much of this is fabricated. If I publish a book and name it (American History:the real truth) and state that George Washington was really an alien spy most who gave this a five star rating would agree with me, and the while this is a sad fact it does not make it true. Simply believing something does not make your beliefs the reality if you put those beliefs into print.

  • Terrible

    1
    By Someone2153
    The whole point of this book is pointing out the flaws in America and saying why it is the most oppressive country it focuses on a lot of Christopher Columbus correct? Well Christopher Columbus never even landed in the United States and it focuses on Portugal and the Spanish when they came here 150 years before the United States this book is not credible at all many historians have proven Howard to be wrong

  • 😩😫😭😴😠😡

    1
    By Dominiqueeeeeeeeeeee
    Worst book I have ever read in my life! It made me want to kill myself 😩

  • One Trick Pony

    1
    By sweetspacemonkey
    This books gets old really quickly. Everything is some sort of war of imperialism including -- US entry into WWII and liberation of Western Europe. This is when I really lost it. How blind and dogmatic do you have to be to try a one size fits all approach to history. Give me a break and get you head out of your...

  • It's simply not sound.

    1
    By BenGilstrap
    There are 2 kinds of historians: those who think leaders lead and those who think the masses lead. Zinn is one of the latter. He went to the archive with the presupposition that the masses are the driving force of history, and that's what he found. He told a monolithically left-wing academic establishment exactly what they wanted to hear in the 80s, and they still love the sound of it today. But it's not sound history because no matter how much he may want ordinary people to drive historical causation, the ordinary must be lead by the extraordinary. Simply put, nothing happens until the big names get on board and thaw the lead.

  • If you want to see what the communists thought...

    1
    By alec *ad*****
    then read this book. This guy finds a way to attack the US and capitalism on every page.

  • The People History Of United States

    5
    By Showorker
    This the best book I read very good for people want to know why thing seen to stay the same great book MR Zinn

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