A peoples history of the united states digital audiobook unabridged. It focuses particularly on the effects of government policy on the poor, women, and nonwhites throughout us history, documents labor movements and equality movements in more depth than one. Velvel interviews american historian howard zinn on his books. Howard zinns landmark book that challenges the sugar coated and bowlderised history that many of us are were taught in school with the. You cant be neutral on a moving train a personal history of our times, and failure to quit reflections of an optimistic historian. He discussed how he decided to become a historian and. But its polemic rewriting of american history as a story of oppression is an agendadriven fairy tale that has no place in academia. Jan 28, 2010 howard zinn s iconic book, a people s history of the united states, transformed the way many americans view history by focusing on the voices that other historians had long ignored. Howard zinn is known most as a civil rights leader, an antiwar activist, and an awardwinning playwright. A classic since its original landmark publication in 1980, howard zinns a peoples history of the united states is the first scholarly work to tell americas story from the bottom up from the point of view of, and in the words of, americas women, factory workers, africanamericans, native americans, the working poor, and immigrant laborers. A peoples history of the united states by howard zinn. A peoples history of the united states audiobook by howard zinn.
Howard fast, author of spartacus and the immigrants it should be required reading. Zinn definitely has a slant on history, but i enjoyed it, since the history we are taught in school also had a slant. His most famous book is a peoples history of the united states. In 2009, history aired the people speak, an acclaimed documentary codirected by zinn, based on a peoples history and a companion volume, voices of a peoples history of the united states. This edition of a peoples history of the united states features insightful analysis of some of the most important events in this country in the past 100 years.
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