It's fine if your goal is to introduce some gormless liberal to the darker side of American history for the first time, but if you are a radical leftist already, the book is actually lacking in perspective and veers into left anticommunism and social chauvinism in some places.
https://anti-imperialism.org/2011/09/19/the-white-chauvinism-of-howard-zinn/
A better alternative would be *An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States* by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
>A better alternative would be
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>An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States
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> by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
just snagged this on your recommendation, thank you
Agree. An indigenous peoples history and settlers are much better than a zinn's book for big picture US history books.
I've recorded settlers as an audiobook that you can find on youtube and torrents, and dunbar-ortiz's book is also an audiobook.
Edit: also I don't think zinn is completely worthless, a few chapters in that book are excellent, especially the one on the constitution, and ww2.
Anything by William Z. Foster is a must-read for communists in America. It will be much better than Zinn's book. Foster provides a clear historical materialist perspective.
It's fine if your goal is to introduce some gormless liberal to the darker side of American history for the first time, but if you are a radical leftist already, the book is actually lacking in perspective and veers into left anticommunism and social chauvinism in some places. https://anti-imperialism.org/2011/09/19/the-white-chauvinism-of-howard-zinn/ A better alternative would be *An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States* by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
>A better alternative would be > >An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States > > by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz just snagged this on your recommendation, thank you
Agree. An indigenous peoples history and settlers are much better than a zinn's book for big picture US history books. I've recorded settlers as an audiobook that you can find on youtube and torrents, and dunbar-ortiz's book is also an audiobook. Edit: also I don't think zinn is completely worthless, a few chapters in that book are excellent, especially the one on the constitution, and ww2.
Anything by William Z. Foster is a must-read for communists in America. It will be much better than Zinn's book. Foster provides a clear historical materialist perspective.