Reviews with content warning for Racism - An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States

This is a very important and eye-opening book. The author absolutely decimates the founding myths of America and sheds much needed light on a history of settler colonialism and genocide that the United States has worked hard to bury.

I was not the biggest fan of the writing style, and I think this book would have benefited from editing to make sure it maintained a tighter focus on its subject matter. At times the book seemed to skip around between geographic areas or time periods, without making clear who, where and when the narrative was describing.

Five stars for thesis. Four stars for writing style and readability.

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4.0

This audiobook started off quite hard to follow. The structure never quite clicked for me, as it wasn't organized by time, by nation/region but rather by topics that were not clearly delineated by the narrator (other nonfiction audiobooks use short music to separate chapters and topics in a clear way).

All of that said, the information in this book was comprehensive and enlightening. So much American history revealed. A primary aim of the book is to deconstruct the American origin story narrative, as well as other harmful narratives like the Doctrine of Discovery and Manifest Destiny.

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