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Zinn provides material that should have been included in a public school education in the United States, but was omitted possibly for various message control reasons. After digesting the information presented so effectively in this book, it becomes easier to identify hypocritical actions of those in power regardless of political affiliation.
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Having only read halfway into the book, I feel it fits to only review that far. Thus far, the book has focused nicely on the "little people" of America's history. Those oppressed, massacred, and other things of that sort. Zinn writes with an incredible predjudice AGAINST those typically held in esteem in history, but this bias is the basis of the book and its view of American history. TO those who argue that Zinn's extreme revisionism is a detriment to "historical fact." History is all about facts, the choice of which side to focus on, however, is what deems whether its "revisionist propaganda" or not. Zinn chooses to focus on the typically ignored facts. Sure, Columbus dicovered the new world, but he did ALSO massacre the natives. Zinn plays up the latter. So far, this book, whether agreed with or not, has brought up many fascinating issues and grey areas in the history of the Unites States. In High School, the US History classes felt terribly redundant and very egotistical in the sense of "look what we've done." Had the classes been taught either FROM this viewpoint or with this view included, perhaps the opposing forces might have allowed for some unique takes on the history of the US. However, the next best thing to a class of this nature is the unique information contained in Zinn's book.Read full review
Simply the finest, best documented U.S. History text ever written. Students absolutely need to refer to this text in order to balance the conventional "to the victor goes the spoils" and the right to write history. Hearing from women, children, slaves, workers, people of color, and Indigenous peoples, those who never make it past a blip on the pages of conventional history texts. It offers students, and interested adults, the perspective of those who awoke, worked, slept, day after day within the system veiled under the politics and wars of schoolhouse history books. Students walk away with a broader perspective and an invitation to follow Zinn's lead and research the reality left between the pages of conventional curriculum.
This is the text every high school student should read!
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I bought this text for a course I am doing in College. I love the way it's written. So far I have not encountered anything that I can categorize as 'dislike'. The entire experience from ordering to receiving was excellent. I would not hesitate to make another purchase and definitely would recommend this to others at school. Keep up the good work. Thanks !
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