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Consistently lauded for its lively, readable prose, A People's History of the United States turns traditional textbook history on its head, as Howard Zinn infuses the often-submerged voices of blacks, women, American Indians, war resisters, and poor laborers of all nationalities into the narrative. The Twentieth Century uses the relevant chapters of that book as a starting point, expanding upon the story to provide a rich portrait of the United States from the jingoistic rise of Theodore Roosevelt to the Clinton presidency. If your last experience of American history was brought to you by junior-high-school textbooks--or even if you're a specialist--get ready for the other side of stories you may not even have heard. With its vivid descriptions of rarely noted events, The Twentieth Century is required reading for anyone who wants to take a fresh look at America's legacy as a world power.
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"Howard Zinn's history is a very different one. It's about the folks at the bottom, the people." -- -- Philadelphia Bulletin
"Proffessor Zinn writes with an enthusiasm rarely encountered in the leaden prose of academic history...." -- -- Eric Foner, New York Times Book Reviw
"Zinn has written a brilliant and moving [book] from most histories....An exekkent antidote to establishment history." -- -- Library Jornal --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
"Proffessor Zinn writes with an enthusiasm rarely encountered in the leaden prose of academic history...." -- -- Eric Foner, New York Times Book Reviw
"Zinn has written a brilliant and moving [book] from most histories....An exekkent antidote to establishment history." -- -- Library Jornal --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Theodore Roosevelt wrote to a friend in the year 1897: " In strict confidence...I should welcome almost any war, for I think this country needs one." Read the first page
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5.0 out of 5 stars
US History Not-Lite,
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This review is from: The Twentieth Century: A People's History (Paperback)
I often use this book in one of my university history classes, "US History Since 1877." It's biased. All history writing it biased. (George W. Bush's problems with "revisonist history" aside.) I tell the students about Howard Zinn and his biases. And I tell them to try and be as upfront and aware of biases as they are of Zinn's, and as Zinn is of his own. People are bombarded with so much yahoo, rah-rah, raise-the-flag, my-coumntry-right-or-wrong (the next part of that toast is usually---and very conveniently---ignored; check it out some time) that Zinn is as refreshing as a tequila mojito on a hot summer day. He may rant, but unlike many on the other sides he can be checked out for veracity and found to be correct. You have to be when you're taking shots from folks who prefer using cant, rhetoric and arrant nonsense to propel their own agendas. Highly recommended. But, if you use this book in a class, watch out; the Thought Police are watching.
3.0 out of 5 stars
Simplistic but sometimes very rewarding,
By Romantic Anna (Bronx, NY United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Twentieth Century: A People's History (Paperback)
The 20th century was a violent, disturbing time but one with many amazing developments. Zinn focuses only on the dark aspects and primarily on the U.S. role in international politics. I have enjoyed and been informed by Zinn's work in the past but I found this book overly simplistic. While my politics are left leaning, i find that many historians on the left write about the world as if everything that happens in the world is a conspiracy- human psychology, sociological trends, even religion never enter Zinn's mind as reasons for the march of history. The 'America is bad' view of life is irratatingly simplistic. That said, Zinn is an expert on Vietnam and his work is an antidote to the skewed history textbooks we were forced to read in high school. I recommend this but also think it is necessary to not accpet everything in the book as a rock solid truth.
2.0 out of 5 stars
get a late version of people's history of the U.S. in stead,
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This review is from: Twentieth Century Revised (Paperback)
With this book, I was expecting Zinn to go into more detail about America in the 20th century, but it is essentially the 20th century chapters of People's History of the United States taken out and labeled as a new and different book. If you have an older version of Pepole History of the United States by Howard Zinn, the Twentieth Century might be good because of the chapters relating to the elder Bush and Clinton administrations. The rest of the chapters are in people's history. However, recent version the people history of the united states do contain the extra chapters so if it would be better to just get a later version of People's History of the United States instead if you don't have a copy yet.
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