A People’s History of the United States: 1492 – Present (Howard Zinn)

From Howard Zinn comes A People’s History of the United States: 1492 – Present, available as a complete audiobook for History listeners.

A People’s History has been assigned as reading in many high schools and colleges across the United States. It has also resulted in a change in the focus of historical work, which now includes stories that previously were ignored Library Journal calls Howard Zinn’s book “a sharp and moving history of the American people from the point of view of those…whose plight has been largely omitted from most histories.” In the book, Zinn presented a different side of history from the more traditional “fundamental nationalist glorification of country”. Zinn portrays a side of American history that can largely be seen as the exploitation and manipulation of the majority by rigged systems that hugely favor a small aggregate of elite rulers from across the orthodox political parties.

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