Title:
A people's history of the United States / Howard Zinn.
Author:
Zinn, Howard, 1922-2010.
Publication Information:
New York : Harper Perennial, 2010.
Call Number:
E178 .Z75 2010
Abstract:
Presents the history of the United States from the point of view of those who were exploited in the name of American progress.
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Edition:
1st Harper Perennial Modern Classics deluxe ed.
ISBN:
9780061965586
Series:
Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Harper Perennial modern classics.
Physical Description:
729, 16 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
General Note:
First Harper Perennial Modern Classics edition published in 2005.
"P.S.: insights, interviews & more ..."--16 p. following main text.
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 coming revolt of the guards -- The Clinton presidency -- The 2000 election and the "war on terrorism." -- Afterword.
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