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 enlarge | Author: Howard Zinn
Publisher: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Category: Book
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Rating:  641 reviews
Sales Rank: 478
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 768
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.4
Dimensions (in): 7.9 x 5 x 1.3
ISBN: 0060838655
Dewey Decimal Number: 973
EAN: 9780060838652
ASIN: 0060838655
Publication Date: August 1, 2005
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 A biased and inaccurate history September 14, 2008
17 out of 36 found this review helpful
This book presents a biased and inaccurate history of the US. In Zinn's eyes America is the source of evil in the world. This is historical revisionism and political correctness at its worst. The fact that this is used as a text in many schools is evidence of the anti-American bias of academia. Instead of this, I would recommend "A Patriot's History of the United States" by Schweikart.
 This should be required reading in our schools September 5, 2008
5 out of 8 found this review helpful
Our country will never be able to live up to the lofty ideals of our founding documents unless we come to grips with the truth of how we got where we are. This book tells the truth about how the people on top have butchered and suppressed others in order to STAY on top. The first 10 pages are absolutely shocking - WHY do we celebrate Columbus Day?
Every American school student should be required to read this, if only to counterbalance the glorious, whitewashed history that is in our textbooks.
Fact in search of an author. September 4, 2008
29 out of 34 found this review helpful
The sad part is the ideas Zinn is so passionate about deserve to be expressed well and read by an even larger audience than he currently enjoys.
Had Zinn hooked up with a good writer this may well have been a good book. As it stands I can't help feel I am browsing wily nilly through stacks of index cards filled with quotes, facts, and observations from original and secondary sources pertaining to a particular view of U.S. history.
Now all someone has to do is organize all these cards into a book with, if we are lucky, a compelling narrative flow. That is a separate art from the collection of the index cards, something Zinn is very good at.
Currently the material is mind numbingly unorganized, repetitive, and verbose, which is a shame. Zinn's view of the primary forces that have shaped, and continue to shape our country deserve a better showing.
 A Potentially Somewhat Accurate History of U.S. August 28, 2008
7 out of 11 found this review helpful
It's obvious this cat knew the kind of book he wanted to write before he started. He just needed the facts and data to back it up. A lot of this guy's opinions and conclusions are probably right. But it's hard to lend much credibility to a historian who grabs at so many straws. One thing I remember was he wrote about a riot in New York during the Civil War and stated that no actual number of deaths were ever recorded, but that this was the largest number of deaths ever in a case of domestic violence in America. Is that a guess then? I think that's around pg. 236, though I don't have it in front of me. One thing I do know is on pg. 193 he talks about the massacre at Fort Pillow, Kentucky. Dude, Fort Pillow is in Tennessee. If you can't even get a fact like that straight, how can I trust all the other less clear-cut things you present? Go ahead and read this if you want a non-typical book that doesn't rave about how great America's past was. Just don't put much stock in everything this guy tries to feed you.
A People's History of the United States August 4, 2008
6 out of 11 found this review helpful
This is a book that everyone should read & should be a requirement in all schools.
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