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A review by fanboyriot
A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn

informative slow-paced

3.0

I have a bit of mixed feelings for this book.  I didn’t like it as much as I was expecting but there were a lot of events I didn’t know much about and don’t remember ever learning in school so there was that.  This book is a critical assessment of American history and a big reminder that all of our rights were always something we had to fight for.

A more critical view of this book is that it felt overhyped.  He does reveal a lot that isn’t taught in school here in the United States of America; but nothing in this book was a revelation.  The book felt like it was hastily combined together with multiple different topics that felt like there was a lot left out.  I don’t consider myself a big history buff in the slightest but unless you’ve lived under a rock most of the things mentioned shouldn’t be as much shocker as it is made out to be.

Read For
✓ Political
✓ Nonfiction
✓ Social Justice
✓ American History 

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Writing Style: 5/10
Would I Recommend? Maybe

Favorite Quote: ❝ “In the long run, the oppressor is also a victim. In the short run (and so far, human history has consisted only of short runs), the victims, themselves desperate and tainted with the culture that oppresses them, turn on other victims.” ❞

Pages: 729 (paperback)
Format: Audiobook
Language: English
Release Date: 01, January 1995
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