A peoples history of the United States. - Howard Zinn

[Jaha]

i have recently started this text. im reading it out of order, but i have about 150 pages under my belt, as it were.....

i was curious how many have read it and what their opinions were. i find it very interesting. American history with a truthful twist.

[Spiritual Minded]

I've been recommended this book but I haven't had the chance to read it. The libraries in Sweden suck...

[ComradeJunichi]

I read bits and parts for information and sources for debates. It's a great book, although I havn't had the time to read every page. I highly recommend you find the time to finish it, lol.

[Anonymous]

Rage against the Machine, and the movie Good Will Hunting genius character recommend the book. Matt Damon has done a audial recording of the book. Make sure you get the most recent edition that includes the clinton administration. Well, it is a good book. I haven't read it all but I have previewed the book. It has to do with the history of ordinary Americans and their ordeal as the government fucks them up with protecting the rich or getting them involved in stupid wars like the one in Vietnam. Other history books concern themselves with relating history through the point of view of leaders but this book is more concerned how the average American is affected by the nightmare of American history. People of all colors are represented.

From the Publisher
For much of his life, historian Howard Zinn has been chronicling American history from the bottom up, throwing out the official version 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, Zinn's 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 — its women, factory workers, African-Americans, Native Americans, working poor, and immigrant laborers. Here we learn that many of our country's greatest battles — labor laws, women's rights, racial equality — were carried out at the grassroots level, against steel-willed resistance. This edition of A People's History of the United States features insightful analysis of some of the most important events in this country in the past one hundred years.Featuring a preface and afterword read by the author himself, this audio continues Howard Zinn's important contribution to a complete and balanced understanding of American history.

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(Edited by Edward Penishands at 9:02 pm on Nov. 1, 2002)

[SonofRage]

It's an awesome book (I own it). It should be required reading for every American.

[Umoja]

We are reading for our Companion textbook for my US History course. It's a great read, one of the only text books I've ever loved.

[anger is a gift]

i agree that the book is great and monumentally important. i am about 150pgs. into it and it is blowing my mind. some of the things white people have done to minorities in this country? wow. and dont even get me started on native americans. this book should be required in high school and college. most of the time when i get done reading a chapter, i feel like going out and finding an native american, black, latino, or women and saying, "i am soo sorry for what my forefathers did to you and your kind, what can i do to help" makes me ashamed to be a white male.

[Umoja]

Wow Anger, if only more people were like you, then all this racial crap, could be easily solved. Yeah, it's a book everyone should read.

I love Zinn.

[Emmanual Goldstein]

Yep, Zinn's a beast. I've read a people's history cover to cover, and read several parts over again for research papers. It's among the most genius books I've ever read, next to the Lorax and 1984.

[I Will Deny You]

I loved that book. I have given copies to my younger cousins to read. I could not possibly recommend it more. Zinn's not always my cup of tea, but this book gets an A+.

Lindsay

PS - The Lorax is great.

[anger is a gift]

now i am about eleven chapters in and there is a theme that seems to be present in every era of american history. the rich use the poor to secure and increase their wealth (ie. war, labor, taxes). also, they always find a way to set the poor whites and the poor blacks or the poor whites and the native americans against each other so as to make sure they don't ally against the capitalists. makes me sick. another thing, why the hell do we celebrate columbus day and why does lincoln have a memorial? columbus started one of the largest and longest lasting genocides in history, one that makes hitler look like a weekend hobbyist and lincoln stated over and over again that he had no intention of freeing the slaves. he said and i quote "if i could save the union and not free the slave population, i would do that... my aim has never and will never be to set the white race and the black race at equals" i say fuck lincoln and fuck columbus and i will be god damned if i pay one lick of respect to either of these bastards

(Edited by anger is a gift at 3:40 am on Nov. 20, 2002)