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Author Zinn, Howard, 1922-2010.
Title A people's history of the United States / Howard Zinn.
Publisher New York : Harper Perennial, 2010.
Edition First Harper Perennial Modern Classics deluxe edition.
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 Nixa Adult Nonfiction  973 ZINN    CHECK SHELF
Descript 729, 16 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Subject United States -- History.
Series Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Harper Perennial modern classics.
Note First Harper Perennial Modern Classics edition published in 2005.
"P.S.: insights, interviews & more ..."--16 pages following main text.
Bibliog. Includes bibliographical references (pages [689]-708) and index.
Summary Presents the history of the United States from the point of view of those who were exploited in the name of American progress.
Contents Columbus, the Indians, and human progress -- Drawing the color line -- Persons of mean and vile condition -- Tyranny is tyranny -- A kind of revolution -- The intimately oppressed -- As long as grass grows or water runs -- We take nothing by conquest, thank God -- Slavery without submission, emancipation without freedom -- The other civil war -- Robber barons and rebels -- The empire and the people -- The socialist challenge -- War is the health of the state -- Self-help in hard times -- A people's war? -- "Or does it explode?" -- The impossible victory: Vietnam -- Surprises -- The seventies: under control? -- Carter-Reagan-Bush: the bipartisan consensus -- The unreported resistance -- The coming revolt of the guards -- The Clinton presidency -- The 2000 election and the "war on terrorism." -- Afterword.
ISBN 9780061965586
0061965588
9780061965593
0061965596

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