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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

Historian Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States chronicles American history from the bottom up, throwing out the official narrative taught in schools--with its emphasis on great men in high places--to focus on the street, the home, and the workplace.

Known for its lively, clear prose as well as its scholarly research, it 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. As Zinn shows, many of our country's greatest battles--the fights for a fair wage, an eight-hour workday, child-labor laws, health and safety standards, universal suffrage, women's rights, racial equality--were carried out at the grassroots level, against bloody resistance.

Covering Christopher Columbus's arrival through President Clinton's first term, A People's History of the United States features insightful analysis of the most important events in our history. This edition also includes an introduction by Anthony Arnove, who wrote, directed, and produced The People Speak with Zinn and who coauthored, with Zinn, Voices of a People's History of the United States.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Harper Collins USA; Reissue edition (17 Nov. 2015)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 784 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0062397346
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 13.49 x 3.18 x 20.32 cm

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A brilliant and moving history of the American people.--Library Journal

A brilliantly written story about the U.S. through the lives of those too often overlooked.--Time magazine

Howard Zinn's work literally changed the conscience of a generation. And the series of 'people's histories' derived from this great work have provided new understanding of who we are and what we should aspire to be. --Noam Chomsky

"[A People's History of the United States is] 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

"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. . . . [It] should be required reading."--Eric Foner, New York Times Book Review

About the Author

Howard Zinn (1922-2010) was a historian, playwright, and social activist. In addition to A People's History of the United States, which has sold more than two million copies, he is the author of numerous books including The People Speak, Passionate Declarations, and the autobiography, You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train.

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'Land of the free', more like the land of the brainwashed.

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Everyone needs to read this book. To say it is eye-opening would be an understatement. It is one of the rare history books that tells the truth about America. The genocide of the Native Americans, slavery, exploitation of the poor whites, government controlled by the corporations, wars fought purely for business interests, plus much much more. There is also this myth that America's politicians have only recently being influenced by corporations, money and greed when in fact the truth is they have been corrupt from the very beginning. Jefferson, Washington, Adams were not any different from the current crop, they were all crooks. Howard Zinn is a truly remarkable and brave man for having the courage to write such a masterpiece.

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The history of the US with no punches pulled.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 27 February 2020

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What a disgraceful one it is to, mind you the UK's social history is not much more edifying than theirs.
Only that their treatment of their people has been more brutal than our's has been.
It is absolutely ridiculous spending over fifty percent of their GNP on arms, mind you what do we need two aircraft carriers for? and then building up the national debt by importing goods from China that could be produced in the US, and therefore creating more jobs.
And creating more money to be available for spending on welfare, and the infrastructure of the country.

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Benjamin Frankly

"Everybody knows the dice were loaded, everybody knows the bad guys won........"

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 13 October 2016

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Beginning with Columbus' in 1492, Howard Zinn gives us a history of Amerika from below. From the framing of the constitution the game has been rigged in favour of the elite, the rich, the political establishment and business - especially BIG business. A relentless struggle of poor rich folk against the huddled masses by any means possible, including murder, secret surveillance, ballot rigging and vested interest lawmaking.I knew some of the history before reading this addictive account, but much of it was new to me. Immigrants from the Mayflower onwards, regardless of ethnicity, ruthlessly exploited for their labour and denied decent wages, housing and working conditions. The struggle continues to this day,and every day the USA becomes more and more polarised.
"I wonder who they are, the men who really run this land........."

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Michael McKenna

Impressive but depressing!

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I have always taken the view that a summary but valid means of assessing a country is to view the numbers of people trying to get in as opposed to the reverse.
As an Irish person, this has enabled a more positive view of my country in recent decades.
And so I have always been positively disposed towards the US, a country I have visited many times and been in probably half the states.
This book provides a convincing and totally more negative perception.
And definitely worth reading!

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Hard going, sometimes, but worth the effort.

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I know very little American history other than that gleaned from films and TV and thought this would give me an easy-to-read overview. Let's just say it enthralled and appalled me in equal measures; however, I now have a deeper understanding of some of the issues affecting a large proportion of the American population. I say that while acknowledging the many horrors and injustices perpetrated by British colonial expansion.

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The America we are not meant to know about

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This is perhaps one of the most important histories of America, showing the reality of a brutal, corporate led semi militarized state that underlies its projected image of freedom, democracy and the American success story. This is essential corrective reading for anyone who is interested in America and in understanding it's political development.

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From a European perspective this is an insightful history of the United States. It starts from the first appearance of Europeans and has an emphasis on the people, how the people made history and how this history made them. In this book "people" should really be "peoples" as it includes not just the European immigrants but also the original inhabitants, the indentured and the enslaved.

From the perspective of a certain part of America, this is a commie-pinko, bleeding heart liberal, un-American piece of garbage; the perspective of another part of America made it a bestseller.

If you do not have a history of the US, I would recommend this book. However, you may find a short conventional history of the United States useful as a companion volume to anchor this book in a familiar time-line. If you already have a history of the US, you should buy this book and compare the two.

TAKING SIDES: In the first chapter the author sets out his approach to the history of the United States: ". . . in that inevitable taking of sides which comes from selection and emphasis in history, I prefer to try to tell the story of the discovery of America from the viewpoint of the Arawaks , of the Constitution from the standpoint of the slaves, of Andrew Jackson as seen by the Cherokees, of the Civil War as seen by the New York Irish, of the Mexican war as seen by the deserting soldiers of Scott's army, of the rise of industrialism as seen by the young women in the Lowell textile mills, of the Spanish-American war as seen by the Cubans, the conquest of the Philippines as seen by black soldiers on Luzon, the Gilded Age as seen by southern farmers, the First World War as seen by socialists, the Second World War as seen by pacifists, the New Deal as seen by blacks in Harlem , the postwar American empire as seen by peons in Latin America."

THE TONE of the book can be shown by the start of Chapter 4: "Around 1776, certain important people in the English colonies made a discovery that would prove enormously useful for the next two hundred years. They found that by creating a nation, a symbol, a legal unity called the United States, they could take over land, profits and political power from favourites of the British Empire. In the process, they could hold back a number of potential rebellions and create a consensus of popular support for the rule of a new, privileged leadership."

THE BOOK has 608 pages of text spread over 25 chapters plus a Bibliography of 20 pages. There are no Notes, footnotes, illustrations or maps. The original 1980 edition has been expanded to cover the 2000 election and the start of the "War on Terrorism."

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