A People’s History of the United States
(۱۴۹۲-present)
Howard Zinn
Author: Howard Zinn
Country: United States
Original language: English
Subject: American History, American Politics, American Foreign Policy, American Economics
“One of the most important books I have ever read in a long life of reading…. It’s 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
Book Description
This book is the radical social history of America from Columbus to the present. This powerful and controversial study turns orthodox American history upside down to portray the social turmoil behind the “march of progress”.
Known for its lively, clear prose as well as its scholarly research, A People’s History is the only volume to tell America’s story from the point of view of – and in the words of – America’s women, factory workers, African-Americans, Native Americans, the working poor, and immigrant laborers. As historian Howard Zinn shows, many of America’s greatest battles – the fights for fair wage, an eight-hour workday, child-labor laws, health and safety standards, universal suffrage, women’s rights, racial equality – were carried out at the grassroots level, against bloody resistance. Covering Christopher Columbus’s arrival through the Clinton years A People’s History of the United States, which was nominated for the American Book Award in 1981, is an insightful analysis of the most important events in US history.
“Columbus wrote: As soon as I arrived in the Indies, on the first Island which I found, I took some of the natives by force in order that they might learn and might give me information of whatever there is in these parts.”
“The cry of the poor is not always just, but if you don’t listen to it, you will never know what justice is.”
Author
Howard Zinn
Historian, Political Scientist, Social Critic, Anti-war Activist, Playwright
Nationality: American
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