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definitely not perfect but it acknowledges that it's biased, and pretty dang good overall. all of our dads should read e section on Ronald Reagan
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Long read but good information, shining light on the often overlooked people in the United States of America's Star-spangled history books.
Anyone screaming that this is communist propaganda or anything like that doesn't really understand that the US is not always the heros we say we are. Most likely, they did not actually read or understand what they read.
Anyone screaming that this is communist propaganda or anything like that doesn't really understand that the US is not always the heros we say we are. Most likely, they did not actually read or understand what they read.
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Extremely long but takes a look at the evolution of the United States, starting with the genocidal atrocities committed by Christopher Columbus through the American Revolution, slavery, Civil War, Vietnam and all the way through George W. Bush's presidency. Zinn follows this history not through the lies of government and history books, but through the people - social movements: slave revolts, labor riots, civil rights movements, anti war protests. Our history, largely written by white men, is sanitized and leaves out a lot of the ugly details. What Howard Zinn covers is what isn't covered en masse: that our government lies, they serve the corporations interests, poor people and problems are not priorities and we (America) are often putting our nose in other country's affairs (usually with some kind of financial or power benefit). Perhaps depressing in totality, but compared to what is happening today: this is nothing new, it is just more out in the open than ever before.
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"The democratic principle, enunciated in the words of the Declaration of Independence, declared that government was secondary, that the people who established it were primary. Thus, the future of democracy depended on the people, and their growing consciousness of what was the decent way to relate to their fellow human beings all over the world."