A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present (1995 edition)

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A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present (1995 edition)

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Almost 700 pages long, this completely revised and updated edition brings a populist classic kicking and screaming into the 21st century. Written by an activist historian, A People's History presents dimensions of American history formerly glossed over in the high textbooks. (P.S. In previous editions, this lively book has sold more than 300,000 copies!)

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Published June 1st 1995 by Harper Perennial (first published 1980)

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Nov 25, 2012 Mike (the Paladin) rated it 1 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: didn-t-finish

Update: I took this out of the library to attempt a reread...no changes, wanted to be fair. Still don't care for it. As noted, no changes.

Oh my goodness aren't we brave to tell (re-tell) American history this way? "You've been lied to and only I have the strength of character to tell you about it"

Yeah, yeah, yeah I've heard it all before. In C.S. Lewis' Great Divorce there's a high churchman of the Church of England who's going on about how brave he was to take a secular stand and renouncing "t...more

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Jun 23, 2007 Megan rated it 4 of 5 stars Recommends it for: all Americans

Shelves: non-fiction, history, favorites

I finally finished this after slogging through it for two weeks, and it was definitely worth it. Besides being a good refresher in U.S. history, particularly from a non-nationalist perspective, I learned a lot about people's movements, and the ways that people (as opposed to 'the great men of history') have created change in our country.

It's good to know that some of what Zinn covers in A People's History, even though unorthodox at the time he wrote it, has already filtered into public education...more I finally finished this after slogging through it for two weeks, and it was definitely worth it. Besides being a good refresher in U.S. history, particularly from a non-nationalist perspective, I learned a lot about people's movements, and the ways that people (as opposed to 'the great men of history') have created change in our country.

It's good to know that some of what Zinn covers in A People's History, even though unorthodox at the time he wrote it, has already filtered into public education. For instance, it was very clearly taught in my high school U.S. history course that Columbus was not the genteel 'discoverer' of the Americas but rather the wealth-obsessed leader of a genocide against indigenous people in the Caribbean.
However, we didn't cover the fact that even as late as the 1960s and '70s the U.S. government was supporting violence against American Indians. Or that 'equal protection' under the 14th amendment was granted to corporations many decades before it was granted to women. (Literally, judges declared that corporations were considered 'persons' - just as they had finally said black men were persons and not just property - and then they later ruled that the term didn't apply to women.) And we certainly didn't cover the continuous use of military forces by both corporations and government against worker protests, events like the Ludlow Massacre (a strike by miners against the Rockefeller family's Colorado Fuel & Iron Corporation), where first the Rockefeller's own hired thugs, and then the government's attempts to bring in strikebreakers, did not break the determination of the workers, and eventually the National Guard launched machine gun fire on a tent colony of workers and their families. And while we maybe mentioned the death of civilians at Hiroshima, we didn't talk about the millions of civilians killed by U.S. troops in the Philippines, Cuba, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, and both directly/indirectly in numerous Central and South American countries.

The gist of Zinn's book (and this is a long gist, but it's a long book): the U.S. was founded to protect the interests of the wealthy, and continuous class conflict has been suppressed regularly through the creation of nationalist sentiment, as well as through the pitting of oppressed social groups one against the other (for instance, poor blacks against poor whites, or the lower class against the middle class). Furthermore, as we have accepted 'history' as it has been given to us in school textbooks, we've allowed ourselves both to believe the myth that 'the people' are actually represented by the government, and that we have democracy, while allowing a rich elite to maintain power and help create the continuous war economy we now live in, in which we continuously say we cannot afford to provide people with jobs, food, or education, but yet somehow shell out trillions to military contractors to create weapons we should never even be thinking about using.

Some of this I had already picked up here and there, but Zinn's book is a sort of a thick concentration of it all, a thorough look at who "we" as the United States really are. While certainly not a pretty self-portrait, it does end on a hopeful note: 'the people' have created change, and we can do it again.
The catch: change has always been achieved by direct action (violent and non-violent). It has never been achieved by voting.(less)

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Aug 11, 2007 Billy rated it 1 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: Someone who hates America, success, and all thats right with the world

DO NOT READ THIS BOOK! EVER! BURN IT! HOWARD ZINN SHOULD BE DRAWN AND QUARTERED IN A PUBLIC FORUM!!!

Seriously though, when I describe my highschool sophomore year history class I generally use the following sentence, "The theme of sophomore year history was: White people - bad, the downtrodden - good." Howard Zinn's "A People's History of the United States" was our textbook. I HATE THIS BOOK! His basic thesis is that America was built on the blood and suffering of the poor. And while this is def...more

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Jun 14, 2007 Daniel rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I feel like no one should call themselves an American without having a basic grasp of the history of this country. You'd be amazed how many people don't even know even the most common gradeschool history of the U.S., much less the real history of it.

This book is an absolute must read for anybody who cares to know how this country was really founded. Columbus "discovering" America, independence from England, Civil War over slavery, and World War 2 because we got attacked by Japan...those are the...more

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Dec 22, 2008 Jim rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: historical, non-fiction, reference

As a reference or an additional information source, this isn't terrible (4 stars). It really does hit a lot of high points & some that other histories have left out. The writing is good. While dry, it is readable & conveys a lot of information. My copy is an old one that only goes through the Vietnam war. He has updated versions to 2003, I believe.

It is NOT a balanced view of our history & is proposed reading for schools (minus 1 star). It shouldn't be unless read with other material...more

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Jun 20, 2010 Caris rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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Shelves: 2010

When I was young, I was taught that Columbus discovered America. He landed at Plymouth Rock and was met by the indigenous peoples of the country. Together, they celebrated the landing and had am admirable feast. To commemorate this moment, henceforth known as Thanksgiving, my classmates and I threaded dried fruit necklaces and made headbands, complete with feathers.

I was taught this same course of events all throughout elementary school. At some point along the way, though likely not through fo...more When I was young, I was taught that Columbus discovered America. He landed at Plymouth Rock and was met by the indigenous peoples of the country. Together, they celebrated the landing and had am admirable feast. To commemorate this moment, henceforth known as Thanksgiving, my classmates and I threaded dried fruit necklaces and made headbands, complete with feathers.

I was taught this same course of events all throughout elementary school. At some point along the way, though likely not through formal education, I learned that Columbus was a fuckstick and that he murdered the Indians, took them as slaves, and exploited their resources. This latter description of the events, what some might label as the truth, is what Howard Zinn provides interested readers. Which is relevant, of course, because my teachers didn’t just lie about Columbus.

There are a couple of reviews on GR, such as this one and this one, that are fairly representative of the criticism of this text, suggesting that Zinn is a Marxist, hates America, and other similar ill-logical assertions. These claims, I fear, stem from either:

1) having not actually read the book

or

2) a lack of comprehension of Zinn’s ideas

Zinn’s ideas do not endorse socialism. And anyone who takes the time to endeavor to create so thorough an analysis of history clearly cares for his subject matter. Far from being an angry rant against America, Zinn’s book represents a sober study of what happened in our history but, for one reason or another, was overlooked. Zinn does not value patriotism over common sense, loyalty over compassion. Does he often make statements suggesting that socialist governments are more beneficial to the people they serve than are democratic, capitalist governments? He sure does. And that’s because, for the majority of people, it’s true.

The strong central government we appreciate and hold so close to our hearts was put into existence by wealthy white men. This government served their interests when the United States first broke away from the British and it serves their interests today. Good economies are good for the wealthy. Strong military is good for the wealthy. To the bulk of the population, including but not limited to, all of those people living in poverty, none of that means shit.

To condemn Zinn for pointing out this rather obvious fact is irresponsible. Reviews, such as the ones I mention above, can deter readers from embarking on this eye opening journey for erroneous reasons. Zinn’s book was not written for liberals, nor was it written for conservatives. It was written for the people who have been lied to, who suffer at the hands of the system.

For those who argue with Zinn’s work, I ask you this: what were you taught about Columbus?
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May 03, 2013 Keely rated it 1 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: non-fiction, history, reviewed

Howard Zinn saw a problem in the world, a great bias in our understanding of history, a history written by the winners--by tyrants and industrial magnates and warmongers--and so he did something about it: he created an equally flawed and opposed bias, just as carefully constructed to prop up his own one-sided conclusion, in an act which always calls to my mind Bob Dylan's line:

"In a soldier's stance, I aimed my hand. At the mongrel dogs who teach. Fearing not that I'd become my enemy. In the in
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Nov 19, 2007 MethuselasChild added it · review of another edition Recommends it for: Read cautiously

I don't know why teachers would make kids read a book about America written by someone with so little clarity. In the World According to Zinn, Americans (especially THE RICH ) are responsible for all the bad things that have happened in the last 2 centuries.If you believe as he does that America has been a net bad for the world, then by all means read this book. Hell, memorize it. If you believe that America has been a net good in the world, then read it so you can understand the damage it has d...more

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Oct 11, 2012 P.J. Sullivan rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: everyone

Shelves: history

History is about power, said Eugen Weber. This one is about the powerless majority, the humble members of society. The farmers, mechanics, laborers. The Native Americans dispossessed of their land. The slaves dispossessed of their liberty. The women and children, the rent payers, the downtrodden. This is the flip side of the elitist history you learned in school. It is not about kings or presidents, founding fathers or saviors or statesmen. It is "disrespectful of governments and respectful of p...more

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Jan 26, 2012 Jeffrey rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: history-historical

Actually, if you're even somewhat familiar with American History (and I'm not talking about what you learned in your politically correct high school readers, even though in recent years more of the 'bad stuff' is leaking out to our high school students), there's nothing new here. So why are so many upset by Zinn? Most say they are bothered by Zinn's subjectivity (but who cares? after all, it's his book) and what some say is his "whining" tone. Hey, this will help you build your critical thinking...more Actually, if you're even somewhat familiar with American History (and I'm not talking about what you learned in your politically correct high school readers, even though in recent years more of the 'bad stuff' is leaking out to our high school students), there's nothing new here. So why are so many upset by Zinn? Most say they are bothered by Zinn's subjectivity (but who cares? after all, it's his book) and what some say is his "whining" tone. Hey, this will help you build your critical thinking skills and delaing with the reality of bias (never, ever read just one book on complex issues to get it all, or at least most of the true picture) And if he does focus excessively on the rich as creators and cause of all negatives historically, well, he's not too far off (for more, read The End of Money and The Future of Civilization by Thomas H. Greco). But there certainly are positives within most existing negatives (for more read A Patriots History of the United States).

But back to all the people whining about Zinn's whining (yeah, I know, funny, huh? ;o)What frequently happens is that people respond emotionally and within that emotion analyze incorrectly, therefore, missing the mark and attacking the author (not always, but often). What is most likely affecting most people is an initial exposure to long-covered truths, something Zinn has nothing to do with. And if you love your country and you're getting pummeled by constant negatives about that country, well . . . from that emotional state you shoot missing the mark.

But there's nothing new here, and you don't have to take my word. If you're looking for different perspectives on the same material, try this short list:

Revisiting America: Readings in Race, Culture, and Conflict; Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong; and to add to the fire, Noam Chomsky's Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance (yes, the one Hugo Chavez shot to the top of the bestsellers list); Failed States: The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy; What We Say Goes: Conversations on U.S. Power in a Changing World; ad infinitum. Basically anything Chomsky.

As for the conservative reading list, there's . . . ahhhh . . . wait a tic? I don't see anything beyond the one book mentioned above. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm. Let me get on the phone to McCain. I'll be right back.

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Mar 27, 2008 Emily rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: America haters

Shelves: booksofthepast

People who don't approve of Zinn's equal opportunity perspective of history love to call him an America hater. I'm sure that George W. Bush would say that he's an enemy of freedom. But the thing that I love so much about Zinn and this book is his consistent ability to portray the United States (as defined by its history) as so much more than a static, monolitichly motivated country. Traditional approaches to history tell a student that our country was founded by white Christian men with lots of...more

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Jul 11, 2007 Meghan Davison rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I like the book, because, well, I know that I should like it. After all, if it’s good enough to get a shout out from Good Will Hunting, it should be good enough for me. And of course, I find Zinn’s project of telling an alternative history admirable and important. But here’s the thing: I don’t really like the book. I kind of felt like Zinn essentializes all of the subaltern figures of history as mostly good, righteous people (for example, the poor racist southern farmer isn’t that bad; he was ju...more

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Jun 30, 2008 Brian rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: favorite-non-fiction

Nobody likes to look in the mirror and see a big zit. Zinn makes us do so and a lot of people don't like that (it's not polite to point out zits). America has seen itself as perfect for a long time and we are taught that all the way from grade school through college (and every day on Fox News). People say Zinn blames America for everything. Honestly the bull shit has been so steeped the other way for so long, it forced his hand to go over the top in pointing our our flaws. The truth is probably...more

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Nov 02, 2007 John rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

History as it's told in our high school history textbooks is history that focuses on American leaders, whether political, military, or business. Zinn argues convincingly that we need also to see history as it happened to "the people," and that this perspective is by no means synonymous with that of America's elites. In fact, the official line in America's history and politics has been that America is basically one big middle class. Certainly, America long had a larger middle class than most of t...more History as it's told in our high school history textbooks is history that focuses on American leaders, whether political, military, or business. Zinn argues convincingly that we need also to see history as it happened to "the people," and that this perspective is by no means synonymous with that of America's elites. In fact, the official line in America's history and politics has been that America is basically one big middle class. Certainly, America long had a larger middle class than most of the rest of the world, but as Zinn points out, we are "a middle class society governed for the most part by its upper classes." And what we see time after time (as in the present day) is that those who govern us have worked consistently for their own class first and for the country-as-a-whole second.

Zinn takes a hard look at the slaughter of the native Americans, at the exploitation of blacks and poor whites, at the alliance between government and business interests, at the struggles for the abolition of slavery, for labor rights, for civil rights, for women's rights... and over and over we see politicians taking action, passing and enforcing legislation only when popular movements force them to do so. Not simply when the electorate that voted them into office wants it, but when the people demand it in ways that cannot be easily ignored (as the polls more or less can when both parties are so similar on many basic issues). Voting, in fact, can be seen as consitently as a device for making people feel empowered while changing little.

I'll let Zinn speak for himself a bit.

“My viewpoint, in telling the story of the United States, is different: that we must not accept the memory of states as our own. Nations are not communities and never have been. The history of any country, presented as the history of a family, conceals fierce conflicts of interest (sometimes exploding, most often repressed) between conquerors and conquered, masters and slaves, capitalists and workers, dominators and dominated in race and sex. And in such a world of conflict, a world of victims and executioners, it is the job of thinking people, as Albert Camus suggested, not to be on the side of the executioners.”

Zinn puts himself consistently on the side of "the people," inasmuch as there can be said to be such a group--certainly it's not a unified group, and Zinn recognizes this. Still, Zinn would argue, the diversity represented by "the people" have more in common with one another (as much as they have been prevented from seeing it) than they do with the elites who run the country.

Fair warning: it's a long read, and pretty dense. Definitely not what we used to call "drunk-on-the-beach reading." In fact, if you want to read a book that shares some insights with this book without the exhaustive focus, you might start with James Loewen's _Lies My Teacher Told Me_. Really, these are two books that should be read by anyone who wants to understand our country and its history. If it's true that "those who do not learn from history are destined to repeat it," then I think a necessary corollary is that "those who don't know the truth about history are doomed to repeat it."(less)

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Oct 28, 2007 Rachel rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: history

This book taught me more about U.S. history than any class I ever took. I was never interested in history in school. Maybe I was just a budding socialist predisposed to reject the presidents-and-wars perspective. Maybe it was just boring.

Zinn's history is more accurate to what was actually going on than the textbooks are, and much more interesting. Viewing U.S. history as a struggle to gain and keep power on the part of the very rich, I began to see parallels with our own time, time-tested tric...more

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Jul 25, 2007 Ryan A rated it 1 of 5 stars · review of another edition

"Zinn will blow your hair back." Thanks Matt Damon. This book was long, drawn out and boring. Do I really care to learn about every single union leader and strike in America? No, but most U.S. History Teachers think you do. Do yourself a favor, pick an interesting sentence in the introduction and write a paper about that. Save yourself a lot of trouble.

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Jan 20, 2008 Andrew rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

A well written, but severely flawed historical work.
It reads more like sociology than history, with Zinn's concern for social groups and people's movements. Now, at a certain point, those areas with overlap, but for the most part he seems less concerned with getting to a historical truth than preaching a message. At that point, one has to wonder how he deals with contradictory evidence and conflicting opinions. Does he grapple with them and try to sift through all the available evidence? Or does...more

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Jun 19, 2007 sydney rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: historians, teachers, curious americans

Holy pignolia, this took me a long time to read.

But it was worth it. Zinn takes you from Columbus's arrival in North America all the way up to the crazy (read: corrupt) 2000 presidential election, highlighting the stories that don't normally get told in history textbooks or mainstream media. It's a "people's history," so he tells Vietnam from the POV of the protesters, industrialism from the workers, slavery from the slaves, etc. I learned a lot of new (and disturbing) aspects of American histo...more

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Jul 19, 2007 Cedar rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: socialistpropaganda

One of the most poorly written pieces of propaganda I've ever had the misfortune to read. I'll give it this: it filled in a few blindspots in my knowledge of history. There were several major events that I could swear I never learned about in history classes. (Perhaps because my high school history teacher was also the football coach and gave extra credit on exams for guessing the point spread of the upcoming game, but that's another story.) Other than that, reading this book was like pulling te...more

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Oct 12, 2007 Brian rated it 1 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Why write a history of the United States when you know it is one-sided and basically propaganda? I understand his stated reasons for writing the book but I think the truth is better than "this is propaganda to fight mainstream history that I think is propaganda." Any one-sided historical accounts are not worth people's time and knowingly writing one is a waste of time. The truth remains obscured.

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Mar 03, 2008 Nick rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: favorites

An extremely readable, powerful, and provocative book. The Peoples History of the United States is a must have companion text for anyone studying American history.

The commonly taught historical perspective comes from the top of the pyramid: the government and the economic and social elite. Zinn's work refocuses that perspective to those at the middle and bottom of the pyramid: the working class and the disenfranchised lower classes. This previously unexplored vantage point allows the reader to...more

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Jan 24, 2008 Steven rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

sometime in that heady, idealistic autumn of 2002 eric schleder and i were cubicle mates at, gee i think it was still pharmacia, yes, it was still pharmacia. we decided to read people's history in sort of a two person book club. i think we agreed to tackle 3 chapters a week. that was reasonable being that eric had a toddler and another child on the way and i am just lazy.

i stalled out after the chapter about Andrew Jackson, the man adorning our US currency 20 dollar bill. I was so outraged (yes...more

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Jan 24, 2013 Robert rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

A wonderful expose of the back story of our country... the story of how a "democratic" people are controlled and manipulated by a representative republic more concerned with property and industry. Its also the story of how protest and agitation have been and continue to be the most effective means of changing a power structure that cares little about our well being.

The most damning truth of the book, which many of us already know, is that there are not two ideologies represented by our "two par...more

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Jun 27, 2007 Meagan rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: neocons, embarassed Americans and uneducated valley girls

I've had to read this book twice now. well, excerpts from it. perhaps one day I'll read its entire contents but from the chapters that I have read I have arrived at the following conclusions:

1) I despise Christopher Columbus and the idiot Americans who parade him around, honoring his memory as if he sat down with our indigenous peoples and had corn bread and tea. Oh yeah, he was a swell guy, he saw that they perhaps would be cold so he gave them some blankets...infested with small pox. Way to go...more

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May 28, 2007 Rob rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: Anyone interested in what US schools don't teach in American history

Shelves: general-history, 2007

A fascinating and sobering introduction to Amerian history from the viewpoint of those with no political power: common laborers, slaves and sharecroppers, Native Americans, women. Zinn presents a scathing indictment of unfettered capitalism as the source of America's social and economic difficulties of yesterday and today. At times, Zinn relies too heavily on anecdotal evidence—as a a statistician, I was most impressed by his reports of large trends, such as the huge number of striking workers d...more

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Feb 08, 2009 Helenn rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: alfonso, general, force-down-my-throat-by-my-teacher, hell-vs-book-the-book-won

This book was mostly force into my hands by my wonderful American History teacher... and that was the end of it. The fact that I was been force to read the book made me not want to so much as touch it, so I barely got pass the first couple of pages. I read some here and there and I must admit it was really good. It provided me with information that was not in my test book and open a whole new perspective. The problem is that... my teacher was forcing me to make and analysis of it and thus I refu...more

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Dec 05, 2007 Sam Sanford rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Do you think the U.S. government's domination by business interests and the wealthy is a relatively recent development? Think the founding fathers would be appalled by the current situation? Think Republicans are responsible for tax cuts for the rich? Think Democrats are the party of the working class? Think JFK was a pretty good guy? Think U.S. involvementin WWII was morally motivated?
If you want to find out why you're wrong about all these things, if you want clear evidence that our government...more

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Jun 09, 2007 Ryan rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I read this book for my AP United States History class required summer reading. I borrowed/recieved it from a friend who had a copy and had taken the class already. A hefty little read it appeared far to borish and complex--a weeks long read at least, and most likely I felt I'd end up trudging through the book word by word without an soul or passion for the text. Begrudgedly I opened up the book and began to run my eyes across the first few sentences. I was completely aghast at the bitter-tone,...more

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Jan 08, 2009 Robb rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This is one of those books that I pick up on occasion and read another chapter. Want to know what REALLY happened in this country's history...minus the varnish and bullshit? Some of the names will be familiar, but this ain't your high school history book...

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Aug 14, 2012 Hassan rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: sociology, history

This book has the potential to push you from run-of-the-mill communist/libertarian to full-blown activist. American history told from the mind of Zinn, once considered leftist, has become mainstream in some educational systems (e.g. "of course Columbus killed Native Americans - everyone knows that!"). The resounding theme throughout is that the US government was formed for and by the rich people, and its very structure promotes massive disparity of wealth. Solution? Escapism, revolution, irony,...more

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BBCode	[url=http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/637409.A_People_s_History_of_the_United_States?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_book][img]http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1223661851l/637409.jpg[/img][/url] [url=http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/637409.A_People_s_History_of_the_United_States?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_book]A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present by Howard Zinn[/url]

A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present (1995 edition)

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