A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present,9780060528379

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A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present

by Zinn, Howard

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9780060528379

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0060528370

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3/6/2003

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HarperCollins Publications

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Known for its lively, clear prose as well as its scholarly research, "A People's History of the United States is the only volume to tell America's story from the point of view of -- and in the words of -- America's women, factory workers, African Americans, Native Americans, working poor, and immigrant laborers.

Author Biography

Howard Zinn -- historian. playwright, and social activist -- was a shipyard worker and Air Force bombardier before he went to college under the GI Bill and received his Ph.D. from Columbia University. He has taught at Spelman College and Boston University, and has been a visiting professor at the University of Paris and the University of Bologna. He has received the Thomas Merton Award, the Eugene V. Debs Award, the Upton Sinclair Award, and the Lannan Literary Award. He lives in Auburndale, Massachusetts

Columbus, the Indians, and Human Progress	p. 1
Drawing the Color Line	p. 23
Persons of Mean and Vile Condition	p. 39
Tyranny Is Tyranny	p. 59
A Kind of Revolution	p. 77
The Intimately Oppressed	p. 103
As Long as Grass Grows or Water Runs	p. 125
We Take Nothing by Conquest, Thank God	p. 149
Slavery Without Submission, Emancipation Without Freedom	p. 171
The Other Civil War	p. 211
Robber Barons and Rebels	p. 253
The Empire and the People	p. 297
The Socialist Challenge	p. 321
War Is the Health of the State	p. 359
Self-help in Hard Times	p. 377
A People's War?	p. 407
"Or Does It Explode?"	p. 443
The Impossible Victory: Vietnam	p. 469
Surprises	p. 503
The Seventies: Under Control?	p. 541
Carter-Reagan-Bush: The Bipartisan Consensus	p. 563
The Unreported Resistance	p. 601
The Coming Revolt of the Guards	p. 631
The Clinton Presidency	p. 643
The 2000 Election and the "War on Terrorism"	p. 675
Afterword	p. 683
Bibliography	p. 689
Index	p. 709
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