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Known for its lively, clear prose as well as its scholarly research, *A People's History of the United States* 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, working poor, and immigrant laborers.
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A must-read for anyone interested in multiple points of view regarding the history of the United States.
Depressing and eye-opening at the same time.
Three things:
1. I hate Christopher Columbus!
2. Zinn is obviously a socialist
3. The book is eye-opening and simply amazing.
It's absolutely a one sided book, but its told from the side that rarely gets its full story told in our modern capital driven society