As seen in the award-winning feature film, Lady Bird.
A classic since its original landmark publication in 1980, Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States is the first scholarly work to tell America's story from the bottom up the point of view.
There is an underside to every age about which history does not often speak, because history is written from records left by the privileged.
Historian and social activist Howard Zinn relays history in the words of America's women, factory workers, African Americans, Native Americans, working poor, and immigrant labourers. From Columbus to the Revolution to slavery and the Civil War - from World War II to the election of George W. Bush and the "War on Terror" - A People's History of the United States is an important and necessary contribution to a complete and balanced understanding of American history.
'A brilliant and moving history of the American people from the point of view of those who have been exploited politically and economically and whose plight has been largely omitted from most histories.' - Library Journal
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One of the most important books I have ever read in a long life of reading . . . It is a wonderful, splendid book - a book that should be read by every American, student or otherwise, who wants to understand his country, its true history, and its hope for the future. -- Howard Fast Zinn's work is a vital corrective to triumphalist accounts. * Publishers Weekly * It has been Zinn's lifework to illuminate the subjectivities others have ignored. * Boston Phoenix * A brilliant and moving history of the American people from the point of view of those who have been exploited politically and economically and whose plight has been largely omitted from most histories. * Library Journal * Should be required reading. * New York Times Book Review *
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978-1-4472-7972-3 (9781447279723)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Howard Zinn (1922-2010) grew up in Brooklyn in a working-class, immigrant household. At the age of eighteen he became a shipyard worker and three years later joined the Air Force where he flew bomber missions during World War II.
He received a Ph.D. in history from Columbia University and taught at Spelman College, where he served as an advisor to the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and worked with young Civil Rights movement activists, including Alice Walker and Marian Wright Edelman. Zinn led anti-war protests, went to Vietnam with Daniel Berrigan, and testified in Daniel Ellsberg's Pentagon Papers trial.
Zinn was a historian, playwright, and social activist. His most famous book, A People's History of the United States, has sold more than two million copies.
Acknowledgements - i: Acknowledgements Chapter - 1: Columbus, the Indians, and Human Progress Chapter - 2: Drawing the Color Line Chapter - 3: Persons of Mean and Vile Condition Chapter - 4: Tyranny is Tyranny Chapter - 5: A Kind of Revolution Chapter - 6: The Intimately Oppressed Chapter - 7: As Long as Grass Grows or Water Runs Chapter - 8: We Take Nothing by Conquest, Thanks God Chapter - 9: Slavery without Submission, Emancipation Without Freedom Chapter - 10: The Other Civil War Chapter - 11: Robber Barons and Rebels Chapter - 12: The Empire and the People Chapter - 13: The Socialist Challenge Chapter - 14: War is the Health of the State Chapter - 15: Self-Help in Hard Times Chapter - 16: A People's War? Chapter - 17: Or Does It Explode? Chapter - 18: The Impossible Victory: Vietnam Chapter - 19: Surprises Chapter - 20: The Seventies: Under Control? Chapter - 21: Carter-Reagan-Bush: The Bipartisan Consensus Chapter - 22: The Unreported Resistance Chapter - 23: The Coming Revolt of the Guards Chapter - 24: The Clinton Presidency Chapter - 25: The 2000 Election and the 'War On Terrorism' Section - ii: Afterword Section - iii: Bibliography
