A People's History of the United States
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First Harper Perennial Modern Classics edition published in 2005.
"P.S.: insights, interviews & more ..."--16 p. following main text.
Columbus, the Indians, and human progress -- Drawing the color line -- Persons of mean and vile condition -- Tyranny is tyranny -- A kind of revolution -- The intimately oppressed -- As long as grass grows or water runs -- We take nothing by conquest, thank God -- Slavery without submission, emancipation without freedom -- The other civil war -- Robber barons and rebels -- The empire and the people -- The socialist challenge -- War is the health of the state -- Self-help in hard times -- A people's war? -- "Or does it explode?" -- The impossible victory: Vietnam -- Surprises -- The seventies: under control? -- Carter-Reagan-Bush: the bipartisan consensus -- The unreported resistance -- The coming revolt of the guards -- The Clinton presidency -- The 2000 election and the "war on terrorism." -- Afterword.
Presents the history of the United States from the point of view of those who were exploited in the name of American progress.
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Harper Perennial Modern Classics.
PUBLISHED
New York : Harper Perennial, 2010.
Year Published: 2010
Description: 729, 16 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
0061965588
SUBJECTS
United States -- History.