tonycrispin 's review for:

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

4.0

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I thought it was pretty good. If you go into it understanding that it is a very biased account of American history, it makes the weird little quirks of word choices and anecdotes easier to deal with. Obviously, the history we're taught in school is a white man's history so it's good to get the scoop on what things were like for the majority of the population that owned little and didn't declare wars. Like I said, there are a few little things in the book I didn't much care for, such as:
Over-use of anecdotal evidence
More than once Zinn used a quotation from a child to make a point (Ruthkanda forever)
In the last chapter, he implies we should bring back some form of child labor
And probably other things I'm forgetting

But other than that I quite enjoyed it. I'm not a big history/foreign policy guy, but if I'm gonna read any left-wing account of history, I'd be happy to read this one again.