A People's History of the United States
By Howard Zinn
A People's History is bad history, albeit gilded with virtuous intentions. Zinn reduces the past to a Manichean fable and makes no serious attempt to address the biggest question a leftist can ask about U.S. history: why have most Americans accepted the legitimacy of the capitalist republic in which they live?
--Michael Kazin, professor of history, Georgetown University [from Dissent]
By convincing several generations of Americans that leadership does not matter and that all beneficial change comes from the bottom, it has played a significant role in the destruction of American liberalism.
--David Kaiser, William B. Pratt Chair of Military History, Naval War College
It is a synthesis of the radical and revisionist historiography of the past decade. ... Not only does the book read like a scissors and paste-pot job, but even less attractive, so much attention to historians, historiography and historical polemic leaves precious little space for the substance of history
--Michael Kammen, Newton C. Farr Professor of American History and Culture (emeritus), Cornell University [from the Washington Pos
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