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A People's History of the United States

Zinn, Howard, 1922-2010. Book - 2015 973 Zi, Adult Book / Nonfiction / History / United States / General / Zinn, Howard 1 On Shelf 1 request on 4 copies Community Rating: 4.9 out of 5

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Includes an author's interview and information about the book.
Reprint of the 20th anniversary edition ; introduction ©2015.
Reprint. Originally published in 1999 as: A people's history of the United States : 1492-present.
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 Clinton Presidency and the Crisis of Democracy -- The Coming Revolt of the Guards -- Afterword for the Twentieth Anniversary Edition.
"With a new introduction by Anthony Arnove, this edition of the classic national bestseller chronicles American history from the bottom up, throwing out the official narrative 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, 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--America's women, factory workers, African-Americans, Native Americans, the working poor, and immigrant laborers. As historian Howard Zinn shows, many of our country's greatest battles--the fights for a fair wage, an eight-hour workday, child-labor laws, health and safety standards, universal suffrage, women's rights, racial equality--were carried out at the grassroots level, against bloody resistance. Covering Christopher Columbus's arrival through President Clinton's first term, A People's History of the United States, which was nominated for the American Book Award in 1981, features insightful analysis of the most important events in our history."-- Provided by publisher.

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Zinn is a treasure submitted by jessNU on August 31, 2018, 10:52pm I was assigned this book in high school and it inspired a major in history in college. highly recommend

Real History! submitted by topraks on December 18, 2021, 1:44pm America’s story from the point of view of women, factory workers, African-Americans, Native-Americans, the working poor, and immigrant laborers.
Historian Howard Zinn shows, many of our country’s greatest battles- fights for fair wages, eight-hour workdays, child-labor laws,!health and safety standards, universal suffrage, women’s rights, racial equality,- were carried out at the grassroots level, against bloody resistance.

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Harper Perennial Modern Classics.



PUBLISHED
New York : HarperPerennial, 2015.
Year Published: 2015
Description: xxii, 729, 16 pages ; 21 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book

ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
0062397346
9780062397348

ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Arnove, Anthony, 1969-

SUBJECTS
United States -- History.