A People’s History of the United States
Howard Zinn retells American history from the vantage of workers, women, and the marginalized rather than its usual victors.
Howard Zinn set out to tell American history from the bottom up, centering laborers, women, Native Americans, enslaved people, and immigrants rather than presidents and generals. The result is a deliberately partisan counter-narrative that reads familiar events through the eyes of those who paid for them. Widely assigned and widely argued over, it reshaped how a generation of readers thinks about the national story.
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Bassem Youssef
It always fascinates me how some people choose to stand for truth in the face of organized, deeply rooted propaganda. I come from a region where questioning the "official history" of our region, our religion, and our countries is frowned upon. Propaganda serves many purposes, one of which is making people falsely feel good about themselves. That's why a book like this is not welcomed by many.
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