A People's History of American Empire by Howard Zinn, Mike Konopacki, Paul Buhle
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Book Reviews of A People's History of American Empire
Book Review: a Phenomenal book!!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
Zinn's greatest work. Fascinating, Frightening, Reality. This cartoon book is completely historically accurate. Zinn's work is impeccable; he has received rave reviews from the NY Times for his People's History of the United States.
A must read. I will be giving this book to many friends.
Book Review: excellent book!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
unlike the displeased idelogues who gave this book a one star rating I will actually review the book.
the book provides many important facts about american history that largely go unnoticed in public schools.
the book moves beyond history as a national monument that is heavily sanitized and politicized to reflect the values of private and state power, and clearly points to the mounting skeletons in our closet.
enough information is provided in comic book form that if a reader wants to read further in more scholarly directions they will know what to look for and verify the validity of the information Zinn provides.
Book Review: Unique and Interesting
Summary: 5 Stars
This was a great read. Seeing history through comic images was unusual and fun. The history is obviously biased, but I learned a lot that I had not known. Book Review: Different expectations
Summary: 5 Stars
I was honestly disappointed when I saw it was a "comic book".
But after reading the first few pages I realized it was just as good as the full original people's history of the u.s.
I think it is very accessible for high school students and for someone who suspects they have an interest but not willing to put forth the time and effort to read the original non-graphic form.
I recommend it as "light" heavy reading.
Neil Gahn
Book Review: How long has this been going on?
Summary: 5 Stars
It takes a while to get through the book, because you can't take too much at one sitting. Make sure you've got your meds. We killed the Indians, but you know that, and dominated the Chinese of the canneries and the railroads, and enslaved the blacks, and shot the people who joined unions, locked up the Japanese ... hey but that's only in this country. You should see what we've been doing on in the rest of the world.