A People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present (P.S.)

A must for high school, jr. high/middle school students who want a good, solid summary understanding of U.S. history!

Only avowed Socialists would find this propaganda book intellectually honest. If you're in college right now you'll probably run into this book in one of your courses; if so you know your professor is a loon and you're better off dropping the course immediately. If you don't, just remember my admonition. To my leftist detractors: The truth hurts.

In an important recent article (9 September 2008) by Ian Jobling entitled `What is Leukophobia?", Howard Zinn's book is analyzed from the point of view of the stereotypes it is based on and which it fuels. These are:

Stereotype #1: Whites are greedy; non-whites are communal and generous
Stereotype #2: Whites are hierarchical and authoritarian; non-whites are egalitarian and libertarian
Stereotype #3: Whites are violent; non-whites are peaceful
Stereotype #4: Non-whites live in harmony with the natural world; whites exploit and destroy it
Stereotype #5: The white establishment is unwaveringly racist and has never behaved generously towards non-whites
Stereotype #6: Injustice flows in one direction only--from whites to non-whites
Stereotype #7: All of non-whites' problems are due to whites
Stereotype #8: Western culture has not resulted in any positive achievement.

This sounds like a tedious rehash of the poison coming from the Frankfurt School, the ADL, the SPC and other hate organizations in their attempt to destroy Western culture. Perhaps this book, to appreciate the full extent of its political agenda, should be read in conjunction with Kevin MacDonald's Culture of Critique and Rabbi Emanuel Rabinovitch speech, delivered in Budapest, on the 12th of January, 1952 before the "Emergency Council of European Rabbi".

"A People's History fo the Unites States" is not research, it's hate speech.

This book presents a biased and inaccurate history of the US. In Zinn's eyes America is the source of evil in the world. This is historical revisionism and political correctness at its worst. The fact that this is used as a text in many schools is evidence of the anti-American bias of academia. Instead of this, I would recommend "A Patriot's History of the United States" by Schweikart.

Our country will never be able to live up to the lofty ideals of our founding documents unless we come to grips with the truth of how we got where we are. This book tells the truth about how the people on top have butchered and suppressed others in order to STAY on top. The first 10 pages are absolutely shocking - WHY do we celebrate Columbus Day?
Every American school student should be required to read this, if only to counterbalance the glorious, whitewashed history that is in our textbooks.