A People's History of the United States

Not going to lie that there is some value in taking the perspective of those who are not mentioned often in the history textbooks and I'm not going to discredit the fact that this book plainly states that it has a thesis that will bias the book as a whole.

But the fault lies in the fact that the book is propaganda - obfuscating facts and never painting a nuanced picture of a situation or a person as a whole. It goes out of its way to only state the bad things that every President does, and when it does concede that there is some good, it does so in passing only to have more negative things to say. At this point, it is not interested in telling facts - it is interested in telling ideology as to why America is bad, inherently evil, and not hearing any debates as to what may be a good rebuttal. It is binary in the fact that if you do not agree with what he is saying: you are either on the right side of history or on the side of oppressors.

The fact is, that I agree with what a lot of the book is saying. But the book is so relentless and aggressive with what it says and tries to paint anyone in the government as a dictator that I cannot advocate for this book.