A review by misterwombat
A People's History of American Empire: The American Empire Project, a Graphic Adaptation by Howard Zinn, Mike Konopacki, Paul Buhle

4.0

This was a fun graphic novel given to me by a friend over the 2014 holiday season. The art wasn't anything to write home about, but the content was certainly exciting. I am inclined to believe that this illustrated history is biased and oversimplifies the real history of US wars and involvement in international affairs, but it does dare the reader to investigate further. Plus, you can't expect a graphic novel to be entirely scholarly. Being a US citizen, I find the blindly patriotic view entirely over represented. Our populace seems far too eager to approve the wars this country engages in. Maybe accessible pieces like this will temper that willingness, and for that possibility I hope this book is widely read. Perhaps it will interest more of us to make a detailed investigation into US policy history. It has certainly interested me in reading Zinn's "People's History" that this book is based on, to get a less simplified understanding of his work. From there I hope to do more digging from a less politically motivated historian on the subjects.