People's History of the United States

Name: People's History of the United States
Rating: 8.2 (1302 reviews)
Author: /author/Howard_Zinn_(Une_histoire_populaire_des_Etats-Unis_de_1492_%C3%A0_nos_jours)

non-fiction by Howard Zinn

Blurb

Cette histoire des Etats-Unis présente le point de vue de ceux dont les manuels d'histoire parlent habituellement peu. L'auteur confronte avec minutie la version officielle et héroïque (de Christophe Colomb à George Walker Bush) aux témoignages des acteurs les plus modestes. Les Indiens, les esclaves en fuite, les soldats déserteurs, les jeunes ouvrières du textile, les syndicalistes, les GI du Vietnam, les activistes des années 1980-1990, tous, jusqu'aux victimes contemporaines de la politique intérieure et étrangère américaine, viennent ainsi battre en brèche la conception unanimiste de l'histoire officielle.

First Published

1980

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Edward.mcwilliams

The chapters were a bit lengthy. I found myself often thinking that most of them could have ended 10 pages earlier and still gotten across their points and purpose with just as much evidence and conviction. I would not call it "lively, clear prose." The book is a trip through US history from the perspective of the losers, the have-nots, the oppressed. From this perspective and base on who the author is, it has a socialist bias. Howard Zinn admits this, but one must remember that everyone has some sort of bias. I think this should definitely be a book read by all people. Even the most patriotic, capitalist, elitist American should read this counter argument and take in the valid points Zinn makes. The moments of progressive/socialist protest in the 1900-1920s and 1960-1970s were especially moving to read. I do feel though after reading it in 2020 that only a little has changed since 1492 and slowly, only a little more will.

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Joselu

Verdaderamente la "otra historia". Se aprende mucho de la historia social, de como se fueron formando los EE.UU. Para contrastar con lo que creemos que sabemos.

0 Responses posted in January