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Summary: A thinly disguised hatred of capitalism
Review: This book is extremely well written. It provides a history of the United States from a perspective different than that of most history texts, and thus covers topics that are hardly touched in other books. Despite this fresh material, it fast becomes tedius as every event is described and analyzed in a common fashion: the little man is constantly being trampled by the American capitalist pigs. Even World War II, a noble endeavor against two of the most tyranical and evil regimes in the history of the world, is reduced to just another excuse for Americans to kill innocents and loot the rest of the world. If Mr. Zinn could have only resisted the temptation to pound square pegs into round holes and ensure that every historical event supported his thesis on the evils of capitalism and the United States, this could have been a well-rounded, refreshing look at American history.
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Summary: Far more interesting than history class
Review: If you are a student at a junior high or high school, read this book and just try to sit through your blindly patriotic Bougeoise History class with a straight face. Some of the facts in this book simply will never appear in your history book until our society changes drastically.
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Summary: It's about time!
Review: I've found this book not only to be a challenging view of history, but a priceless referance for understanding the atrocities that still exist today.
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Summary: knee-jerk history
Review: History is a sort of science. There are right and wrong ways of doing it. Zinn does a wonderful job of pointing out how traditional history books are incorrect in numerous portrayals of the past. However, he commits the same sin as the traditional textbook. Instead of finding the happy medium, he swings to the left and leaves readers in the dust. Zinn does a fine job of pointing out hypcoracies in American history but does not discuss why they occur. These reasons are usually political, but Zinn decides not to explore them further. He just makes the reader think if something is a hypcracy it is therefore wrong, end of discussion. This theory is as tunnel visioned as the conservative accounts of history Zinn is fighting. I am not arguing for hypocracy, I am arguing for a fair treatment of past events.
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Summary: WHICH SIDE ARE YOU ON?
Review: This is one of those books that instantly reveals the political stripe of the reader/reviewer. Right-wingers hate it, left-wingers love it. Falling in-between, but admittedly leaning further to the left than most, I found Mr. Zinn's prose to be didactic in the true sense of the word--both entertaining and enlightening, if at times a bit ideologically rigid. Compare his work with that of the current right-wing darling, Morality Police Chief William Bennett, whose tomes are to me not only revoltingly sanctimonious but badly written as well. The same cannot be said for Mr. Zinn.
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Summary: History of the forgotten
Review: A good book for those who have a basic knowledge of history. For those who do not have basic a history background pass on it for now. You are better served reading a text book. Zinn skims important historical laws, figures, and events. The information is valuable, but only in context.
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Summary: THE TRUTH IS BEAUTIFUL
Review: I've been meaning to read this book for a couple years now, and now I'm sorry I waited so long. It is one of those works that alter the way you read the world and it's events. This is the history of the majority that has been rendered silent by historians subscribing to the "Great [rich, white]Man" theory of history that we're all force fed in the school room. A People's History details the progression of the major people's movements in what is modern day America: Native American, feminist, African-American, labor, immigrant, the disenfranchised. It may sound like a monumental task, but Professor Zinn is up to it. Professor Zinn's history is a living history. It provides a context and clarity to modern events that is rare in historical narrative. One cannot understand modern economics, politics, race relations, etc. if one does not understand the role of the people in history and their struggle to overcome the domination of a few propertied elites. Read this book and a bracing, refreshing wave of realization will wash through your soul.
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Summary: A GREAT BOOK
Review: A great book and a fabulous teaching too
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Summary: Of course conservatives would hate it
Review: I knew when I came here to read the customer reviews of this book, at least one right-winger would have posted a mindless tirade against its unabashed "pinkoism". Good, because this book threatens the likes of wealthy Republican right-wingers where they breathe. A good friend of mine, a brilliant professor of history with very little political bias, tells me the facts in this book are indisputable. I believe him. The People's History of the Unites States would be banned in a fascist America, and Howard Zinn would be executed. Thank God for historians like Howard Zinn, who help to keep this from becoming a fascist America. A must read.
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Summary: a must read
Review: a book everyone should look at regardless of their view of american history. A reader may come in with disagreements but just hearing a propoganda US history is only half the story Although the book does not give a detailed history as i do not think it should,More of class analysis and all throught history america has suprressed people to quote noam chomsky 'there is a unsayable five letter word in america that word is class'
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