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Binding: Audio CD
Dewey Decimal Number: 973
EAN: 9780060530068
Format: Abridged, Audiobook
ISBN: 0060530065
Label: HarperAudio
Manufacturer: HarperAudio
Number Of Items: 7
Number Of Pages: 5
Publication Date: February 01, 2003
Publisher: HarperAudio
Release Date: February 04, 2003
Studio: HarperAudio
Alternate Versions: Click to Display
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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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Provides the reader with a different perspective of the history of the United States as seen through the eyes of African Americans, Native Americans, women, prisoners, laborers. Those people who have been left behind, ignored and treated as second-class citizens. This books gives the reader an un-sanitized view of the history of these people. It is thought provoking and compelling.
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"Bottom up" perspectives, so to speak, on US history are what this is about. Often neglected groups in the conventional narratives brought to us by the public school system and Hollywood get some attention and hopefully the record set a little more straight. This book is a corrective to the warped "top down" traditional accounts of our past that we have been instilled with since childhood which conveniently many unpleasant truths. Historian Howard Zinn wanted to fix that and give us a more inclusive, richer history of our great country. I'd say nothing beats reading the book, but I'm also a fan of audio books. Matt Damon does an excellent job narrating. You can pretend your listening to Jason Bourne narrate. Perhaps Bourne has a new identity and teaches somewhere, educating his students on the dark side of American history. Anyway. A bit of trivia for you--Damon grew up next door to Howard Zinn. They're friends and you might recall in GOOD WILL HUNTING Damon's character mentioning this ... Read More
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You know I was disappointed in this book because though it does cover a lot of ground there is still plenty of important historical events left out. I mean, once you read this, you won't think Bobby Kennedy was such a great guy, but Zinn merely skims the surface of a lot of things without delving deeper into them. Clandestine American military operations in Latin America is only briefly mentioned, as is the Women's Movement. The Civil Rights Movement gets proper attention but what about the Gay Marriage issue or Reagan's part in the AIDS epidemic. Honestly, a very shallow interpretation of American history, better than the trash they teach you at school, but that isn't saying much. Every 5th grader who's taught that Columbus discovered America must have to ask himself where the Native Americans fit into the timeline.
If you don't already despise America or its scandalous history, you will after this though A LOT more depth is needed to make this a truly important ... Read More
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This book offers important perspectives from those most impacted by the policies through which so-called "progress" was made. The ghost of genocide and vicitimazion of people for the benefit of a few continues to haunt us and learning about it is an important first step in overcoming this sad legacy of non-inclusion and domination.
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I thought I was getting the unbrigged one but it wasn't. I was a little upset about that.
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