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Title: A People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present by Howard Zinn ISBN: 0-06-093731-9 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: September, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.85 (358 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: smart, comprehensive, and well-researched . . . and fun too!
Comment: The People's History begins with Christopher Columbus landing in the Bahamas and ends with Bill Clinton serving as President, but (unlike most traditional history texts) it focuses on how normal people -- blacks, Native Americans, women, the poor -- lived and worked. Howard Zinn is an accomplished historian, and this book is well-researched and factually accurate; however, Zinn is also an exceptional writer, and so his People's History is actually fun to read as well.
It's strange to me that people pick on Howard Zinn as "anti-American." The events and conditions he describes, from the massacres of Native Americans to the lives of poor 1920s factory workers to the horrors perpetrated by Americans in Vietnam, are all facts. It's not anti-American to write the truth. In fact, Zinn is much more hopeful and optimistic than some other writers he is often associated with. He uses some of "the people's" successes -- abolition, women's suffrage, desegregation, and so forth -- to illustrate his underlying point that real American men and women really can change the world.
In short, The People's History is a must read for anyone interested in history, anyone whose only historical education came in the form of traditional schoolwork, and anyone who desires an intelligent discussion of the good, the bad, and the ugly of America. If what he says makes you angry, don't blame him -- he's a historian, not a novelist. Instead, take that anger and direct it where it belongs. Do something constructive to change your world.
Rating: 1
Summary: Insult to my intelligence
Comment: This book will be welcomed by anyone with no real knowledge of the world history, poor critical thinking, and unresolved teenage anger towards their parents (remember how they were always wrong? - now it's the government's turn!). Biased marxist coverage of the american history indicates that the author has no clue about the horrors of living under the real communist regime where his ideals were put to action.
I was unlucky to be born and live in the former USSR, before I was able to leave to the US, thanks to the firm anti-communist stand of the former president Reagan and his followers, who brought the Soviet empire down to its knees... As the proud US citizen I would challenge Mr. Zinn to seek an asylim in any of the remaining communist countries (China, Cuba, North Korea, you name it), if he wants anyone to believe that he is a man of integrity.
Rating: 1
Summary: Wow! It was Amazing!
Comment: For all the low-brow types out there: this book blew chunks! Never have I read a more depressing book that takes so many pot-shots at America. Most people are not blind to the truth, not flag flying conservatives that ignore or disregard what is truth.
The main challenge that I have with the book is that it is written by a person who lives in a nation that he hates. How in God's name can a person have NOTHTING good to say about America and yet continue to NOT move to a country that embodies the ideals that he wants? Makes me feel sorry for him and glad that I read this book on my own and wasn't required to read it for school.
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Title: Lies My Teacher Told Me : Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong by James W. Loewen ISBN: 0684818868 Publisher: Touchstone Books Pub. Date: September, 1996 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Declarations of Independence by Howard Zinn ISBN: 0060921080 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: October, 1991 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: The Twentieth Century : A People's History by Howard Zinn ISBN: 0060530340 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 04 February, 2003 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: The Best Democracy Money Can Buy: The Truth About Corporate Cons, Globalization and High-Finance Fraudsters by Greg Palast ISBN: 0452283914 Publisher: Plume Pub. Date: 25 February, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Terrorism and War (Open Media Pamphlet Series) by Howard Zinn, Anthony Arnove ISBN: 1583224939 Publisher: Seven Stories Press Pub. Date: March, 2002 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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