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A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present (Perennial Classics)by Howard Zinn
Powells.com Staff PickFor anyone who sat in a high school history class feeling like there was something more going on than you were being told, this book is a revelation. As engaging as a white-knuckled novel, Zinn's astonishing record of U.S. history from the perspective of the "lower classes" (i.e. those who were not part of the cultural and economic elite) ought to be required reading for every American. Recommended by Bolton, Powells.com Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:A People's History of the United States is the only volume to tell America's story from the point of view of — and in the words of — America's women, factory workers, African Americans, Native Americans, the working poor, and immigrant laborers. Zinn shows that many of our country's greatest battles — the fights for an eight-hour workday, child-labor laws, health and safety standards, women's rights, racial equality — were carried out at the grassroots level, against bloody resistance.
Covering Christopher Columbus's arrival through President Clinton's years in office as well as the 2000 election and the War on Terrorism, A People's History of the United States, which was nominated for the American Book Award in 1981, features insightful analysis of the most important events in our history. Review:"Professor Zinn writes with an enthusiasm rarely encountered in the leaden prose of academic history, and his text is studded with telling quotations from labor leaders, war resisters and fugitive slaves." Eric Foner, The New York Times Book Review
Review:"[A] classic of revisionist American history....Zinn's work is an vital corrective to triumphalist accounts, but his uncompromising radicalism shades, at times, into cynicism." Publishers Weekly
Review:"One of the most important books I have ever read in a long life of reading...It's 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
Synopsis: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.
Synopsis:Known for its lively, clear prose as well as its scholarly research, A People's History of the United States is the only volume to tell America's story from the point of view of — and in the words of — America's women, factory workers, African Americans, Native Americans, working poor, and immigrant laborers.
Description:Includes bibliographical references (p. [689]-708) and index.
About the AuthorHoward Zinn is a historian, playwright, and social activist. He was a shipyard worker and Air Force bombardier before he went to college under the GI Bill and received his Ph.D. from Columbia University. He has taught at Spelman College and Boston University, and has been a visiting professor at the University of Paris and the University of Bologna. He has received the Thomas Merton Award, the Eugene V. Debs Award, the Upton Sinclair Award, and the Lannan Literary Award. He lives in Auburndale, Massachusetts. Table of Contents1 Columbus, the Indians, and Human Progress 1 2 Drawing the Color Line 23 3 Persons of Mean and Vile Condition 39 4 Tyranny Is Tyranny 59 5 A Kind of Revolution 77 6 The Intimately Oppressed 103 7 As Long as Grass Grows or Water Runs 125 8 We Take Nothing by Conquest, Thank God 149 9 Slavery Without Submission, Emancipation Without Freedom 171 10 The Other Civil War 211 11 Robber Barons and Rebels 253 12 The Empire and the People 297 13 The Socialist Challenge 321 14 War Is the Health of the State 359 15 Self-help in Hard Times 377 16 A People's War? 407 17 "Or Does It Explode?" 443 18 The Impossible Victory: Vietnam 469 19 Surprises 503 20 The Seventies: Under Control? 541 21 Carter-Reagan-Bush: The Bipartisan Consensus 563 22 The Unreported Resistance 601 23 The Coming Revolt of the Guards 631 24 The Clinton Presidency 643 25 The 2000 Election and the "War on Terrorism" 675 Afterword 683 Bibliography 689 Index 709 What Our Readers Are SayingAdd a comment for a chance to win!
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