A people's history of the United States (Harper Perennial modern classics)
by Zinn, Howard, 1922-2010 (Author)
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"With a new introduction by Anthony Arnove, this edition of the classic national bestseller chronicles American history from the bottom up, throwing out the official narrative taught in schools--with its emphasis on great men in high places-- to focus on the street, the home, and the workplace. Know... Full description
Table of Contents:
- Columbus, the Indians, and Human Progress
- Drawing the Color Line
- Persons of Mean and Vile Condition
- Tyranny Is Tyranny
- A Kind of Revolution
- The Intimately Oppressed
- As Long as Grass Grows or Water Runs
- We Take Nothing by Conquest, Thank God
- Slavery Without Submission, Emancipation Without Freedom
- The Other Civil War
- Robber Barons and Rebels
- The Empire and the People
- The Socialist Challenge
- War Is the Health of the State
- Self-help in Hard Times
- A People's War?
- "Or Does It Explode?"
- The Impossible Victory: Vietnam
- Surprises
- The Seventies: Under Control?
- Carter-Reagan-Bush: The Bipartisan Consensus
- The Unreported Resistance
- The Clinton Presidency and the Crisis of Democracy
- The Coming Revolt of the Guards
- Afterword for the Twentieth Anniversary Edition.