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A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present (Perennial Classics)
by Howard Zinn
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ISBN13: 9780060528379 |
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For 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
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Publisher 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 Author
Howard 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 Contents
1 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
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
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nikitalynn, April 2, 2008 (view all comments by nikitalynn)
An absolutely profound account of all the in-between stories one never learned in primary education. This book encourages the reader to leap from his or her comfort zone and embrace the reality that history is literally written by the victor. This fact is evident in Zinn's writings of history from another perspective other than that of the rich, prominent, white male however it addresses the life and early times of minorities and women from the earliest colonization of America in the perspective of the "Indians" to late 1900's minority perspectives. I would definitely recommend this text to anyone willing to go out of bounds with a different kind of history lesson; one that will enlighten its reader to indulge oneself in the life and times of the minorities and rights activists who have given their lives to the freedom of all Americans today.
Product Details
- ISBN:
- 9780060528379
- Subtitle:
- 1492-Present by Zinn,
- Author:
- Author:
- Author:
- Author:
- Author:
- Publisher:
- Academic Internet Publishers
- Location:
- New York
- Subject:
- History
- Subject:
- United states
- Subject:
- United States - General
- Subject:
- Democracy
- Subject:
- Political Ideologies - Democracy
- Subject:
- General
- Subject:
- General History
- Copyright:
- 2003
- Edition Number:
- Revised ed.
- Series:
- Perennial Classics
- Publication Date:
- April 2003
- Binding:
- Paperback
- Language:
- English
- Pages:
- 340
- Dimensions:
- 11.00x8.25x.71 in. 1.69 lbs.
