About this title: THE PEOPLE'S HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES presents what has come to be called "history from the bottom up," as it tells America's national narrative in a way that is inclusive of those previously left out of, or marginalized by, standard histories. The book reveals that it was the Arawak Indians who were present at the first contact with Columbus. ...
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Perennial (HarperCollins)
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9780060937317ISBN:0060937319
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Date Published: 2003-04-01
ISBN-13:9780060528379ISBN:0060528370
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Description: Fair. No dust jacket. Highlighting/underlining. Except for the very extensive underlining, this book is in good shape. A handwritten index is taped to the inside of the back cover. Glued binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 702 p. Audience: General/trade; General/trade. read more
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Harpercollins
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9780060838652ISBN:0060838655
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Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Date Published: 1999
ISBN-13:9780060937317ISBN:0060937319
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 702 p. Perennial Classics (Paperback). Audience: General/trade. read more
"I consider this to be one of the most important books I have ever read, and would recommend this book to everyone, and always am recommending it! I love to give this book away (which is how I got my first copy, as a gift.)
I feel if we can learn the real truth about the history of our own country, we will be able to see that history has kept repeating itself. The bullshit, the lying, the manipulating in the name of power and 'control over' is not new, and when we see the road we are going down and have been going down for literally hundreds of years, it becomes easier to say "OK, That's Enough Already." The truth is always empowering. I hope you read this book, and I believe you will be glad that you did."
"This should be the High School textbook for our history classes. Readable, fascinating and well-researched, Zinn is one of our best scholars. Put it in your bookshelf!"
"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 materials as it only tells part of the story. If you want to know anything about how minority groups were mistreated, you'll find it here. While accurate, the view is so unbalanced as to become nauseating after a while (minus another star). While most historians have an axe to grind, most do it more subtly than Zinn does.
To the best of my knowledge, he doesn't gossip nor present any incorrect facts, he does present his facts in such a way as to slam our government at every turn. He does bring up some points that many other histories have glossed over, though (add one star).
For instance, in the early history of the United States, he is very careful to point out every group not represented by the Constitution, yet makes no mention of the fact that these people were not represented before the Revolution either. It's good that he brings up the point, but not so great that he leaves the impression that they obviously should have been. It wasn't obvious to the people of that time that they should have been represented. Men of property made the decisions & always had. Women, slaves & men without property didn't get a say. That they eventually did says a lot for the foundation these men laid, which Zinn carefully avoids.
So overall it is a good thing to read, but only with another history to balance it at hand."
"This is nothing less than the definitive history of the plight of the people of the United States of America. It speaks truth to power, sticks it to the man, not like that judgmental piece of skulduggery by Paul Johnson, that rogue!
Popular interest in the book, no doubt, is fueled by a desire for an alternative view of history which speaks truth to power. But this book, strange to say, has itself become an orthodox view - it has passed into "conventional wisdom" to use John Kenneth Galbraith's term - of American intellectual life. The new conventional wisdom, which understands itself as alternative and antiestablishment, holds, it seems with far more passion than argument or reason, that history is unjustly told by the victors and ruling class, and that history therefore must be rewritten to accomodate the underdog. Zinn believes this with 'passionate intensity', and, in the spirit of dissent and civil disobedience, reverses the 'victor' principle: he rewrites American history from the dispossessed People's point of view, i.e. from the view of the downtrodden and victims of racism and political oppression.
Nothing says that this 'reversal' is any more just or true than the (presupposed) opposite point of view.
If it is true "People's History" is being taught in American high schools, I think this is a big mistake. What it risks teaching is this: passionate adherence to a certain ideology is more desirable than the employment of sound judgment, prudence, reason. Here is the most important point: this particular "alternative" view, if accepted the way Howard Zinn seems to want it, and if taken to heart, will not tolerate any other evaluation of history besides itself; because any other evaluation, according to the merciless logic of this way of thinking, is necessarily sympathetic with the oppressors. The reason for this intolerance, I think, is that this view has fundamentally eviscerated the use of reason for the sake of political action, that is, it has abdicated the need to evaluate the truth of its own judgments because, as the slogan goes, it is time to Act Now! and judge later. (The Red-Neck version of this is 'Kill 'em all and let God sort 'em out.')
The problems of racial and social injustice are far too serious for such unwise and oversimplied thinking."
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