A Folks’s Historical past of the US

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“An exquisite, splendid e book—a e book that must be learn by each American, scholar or in any other case, who needs to know his nation, its true historical past, and its hope for the long run.” –Howard Quick

Historian Howard Zinn’s A Folks’s Historical past of the US chronicles American historical past from the underside up, throwing out the official narrative taught in faculties—with its emphasis on nice males in excessive locations—to deal with the road, the house, and the office.

Recognized for its energetic, clear prose in addition to its scholarly analysis, it is the one quantity to inform America’s story from the standpoint of—and within the phrases of—America’s ladies, manufacturing facility employees, African-People, Native People, the working poor, and immigrant laborers. As Zinn exhibits, a lot of our nation’s biggest battles—the fights for a good wage, an eight-hour workday, child-labor legal guidelines, well being and security requirements, common suffrage, ladies’s rights, racial equality—had been carried out on the grassroots stage, towards bloody resistance.

Protecting Christopher Columbus’s arrival by means of President Clinton’s first time period, A Folks’s Historical past of the US options insightful evaluation of a very powerful occasions in our historical past. This version additionally contains an introduction by Anthony Arnove, who wrote, directed, and produced The Folks Converse with Zinn and who coauthored, with Zinn, Voices of a Folks’s Historical past of the US.