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

challenging hopeful informative inspiring medium-paced

4.75

An indispensable primer and required reading for anyone who wants to balance their perspective of American history. While not a deep dive, Zinn provides an anti-capitalist overview of people's struggle from the discovery of America through to the Bush era. This overview is a fantastic glimpse of an intersectional future, a hopeful blueprint, especially regarding race, class, and gender. Notedly knocking a few points off this review is a lessened focus, although present, of the history of queer struggle that is pointed out as an error by Zinn himself in the afterword.