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jaredpar 's review for:
A People's History of the United States
by Howard Zinn
This book is really a discussion about how the government exists to serve business interests first and the people second. It's a self admitted biased view of history that portrays the U.S. government as a means to keep business successful, secure wealth for the privileged and give the masses just enough to keep them from revolt. It also ties in how the government used race tactics as a way to pit the masses against each other instead of letting them bind together and focus on the government.
It's very eye opening to think of history in this way and there are many events here that I was completely unaware of before reading. The downsides of this book is that it's very long and the narrative is biased (by authors own admission) which makes it harder to take everything as written. In many ways this is a book that gives an overview of dozens of points in history that would be interesting to pick up a book on and dig further into the events.
It's very eye opening to think of history in this way and there are many events here that I was completely unaware of before reading. The downsides of this book is that it's very long and the narrative is biased (by authors own admission) which makes it harder to take everything as written. In many ways this is a book that gives an overview of dozens of points in history that would be interesting to pick up a book on and dig further into the events.