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Summary: WHAT DOES THIS NOT SAY
Review: ...this system will not require poetry{about itself) it will not create larger than life histories, it will stand before man and God( as it's judge) Alexis DE Toquevillle on the democracy....."walk softly and carry abig stick... in response to the acts of the great trust buster {sherman antri-trust} the first 1 millon $ co. was only quarted and left alone...the nobel peace prize to Roosevelt in the solving of the Russo- Japanese war...he won the nobel peace prize we got red china and the soviet union because he gave 1/2 the manchurian r.r. concerns to Japan and his friends the Harrimans.
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Summary: Why High School Students Hate History
Review: According to James W. Loewen's, "Lies My Teacher Told Me," students consider history "the most irrelevant" of twenty-one subjects taught in high school. Whether you graduated last year or sixteen years ago, like myself, the history textbooks used today are just as boring as the ones we used in high school. Howard Zinn's, "A People's History Of The United States," enthusiatically replaces the orthodox form of teaching history (the rote memorization of names, dates, and places) by embracing the revisionist form of teaching history, which will inspire students to critically think and promote life-long learning, rather than bored to tears in-class sleepers.
Zinn's approach to history shows his readers that there is a connection between the past, the present, and the future. His revisionist approach takes on a more Einsteinian paradigm (that everything is relative) rather than the traditional Newtonian paradigm (how can a social science be a pure science?). This approach allows the students to analyze and develop the underlying relationships in historical events in an effort to help us and them solve future problems. Students deserve to know the truth. They need to know the real reason why someone in their right mind would sail of the edge of the world-the spice surely was not nutmeg. They need to know how Carnegie, Rockefeller, and Vanderbilt became so rich and famous-their fortunes were built from the backs of cheap and exploited immigrant labor. In a nutshell, Zinn in his sometimes humorous and always vernacular way makes history interesting, and dare I say? FUN.
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Summary: Great book
Review: I am a long time fan of this book but, unfortunately, in this edition (97) the index does not match the abridged text. I was forced to order the 1995 version directly from the publisher for use in my class room.
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Summary: A treasure of a history book
Review: I read this book as a freshman in college, and loved it. I have bought the book on 3 seperate occasions and each time have given it to someone else to read. I have my own copy that I keep. A great addition to my library.
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Summary: HOWRD ZINN KNOWS WHATS UP
Review: I READ THIS BOOK WITH FULL AGREEMENT. I TOTALLY AGREE WITH DOCTOR ZINN THAT THE VERY IDEAS AND POLICIES OF THIS "NATION" HAVE BEEN BASED IN HATEFUL EVIL AND RACISM. THE FOUNDATIN OF THIS COUNTRY IS OF OPPRESSION AND WE HAVE NOW SEEN IN NEW YORK THAT THE RIGHTEOUSLY OPPRESSED WILL PREVAIL, LIKE PROFESSOR ZINN SAYS. POWER TO THE PEOPLE, NOT THE AMERICAN HATRED!
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Summary: HOWRD ZINN KNOWS WHATS UP
Review: I READ THIS BOOK WITH FULL AGREEMENT. I TOTALLY AGREE WITH DOCTOR ZINN THAT THE VERY IDEAS AND POLICIES OF THIS "NATION" HAVE BEEN BASED IN HATEFUL EVIL AND RACISM. THE FOUNDATIN OF THIS COUNTRY IS OF OPPRESSION AND WE HAVE NOW SEEN IN NEW YORK THAT THE RIGHTEOUSLY OPPRESSED WILL PREVAIL, LIKE PROFESSOR ZINN SAYS. POWER TO THE PEOPLE, NOT THE AMERICAN HATRED!
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Summary: For anyone interested in a VERY BALANCED history book
Review: If anything, Zinn's courageous book, is too nice to the bloody history of the european invasion in the americas. As it is a courageous work, it takes a courageous mind to accept as fact the atrocities the USA was built upon. To those with a mind open enough to seek out the TRUTH, whatever it may be, however horrible it may be, this well written and more than fair book will be a beacon on your journey. -Za'el
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Summary: Most fascinating US history book I have ever read
Review: It doesn't matter how boring you thought history was when you were in school, after reading Zinn's book you will see US history through different eyes. This book looks at US history through the eyes of its victims: Indians, slaves, laborers, women, immigrants, soldiers, the labor movement, pacifists, etc. You don't understand this country today until you understand how we got here.
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Summary: The truth is hard to take, and this book is fabulous
Review: It's history from the eyes of all others except the people who call the shots--those top 2% of the population. It is history as we should know it, to understand all of us, and to make real progress for changing our shadowy and often unjust past.If we study history we will learn what mistakes not to make for the future.
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Summary: Herstory and History from the bottom up
Review: This book is a catalog of every negative event relating to American history, described from a neo-Marxist perspective. Zinn argues that it is necessary to focus solely upon the negative to balance the "patriotic" history taught in schools; however, as a recent product of the public school system, I was made well aware of the horrors of slavery, the Native American genocide, and other atrocities (alongside positive developments). I have concerns about the judgment of an individual who writes, in 1997: "In an economic system not rationally planned for human need, but developing fitfully, chaotically out of the profit motive, there seemed to be no way to avoid recurrent booms and slumps." By repeating the longstanding Marxist mantra regarding crises, he makes it apparent that he has no understanding of the events of the last decade. Zinn's style is breezy and accessible--he is an excellent advocate, but one whose complete lack of balance is unsettli! ! ng.
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