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Length: 34 hours and 8 minutes
Author: Howard Zinn
Narrated by: Jeff Zinn
Category: Ideologies & Doctrines
Publisher: HarperAudio
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“An exquisite, splendid ebook – a ebook that must be prepared by each American, scholar or in any other case, who desires to know his nation, its true historical past, and its hope for the long run.” (Howard Quick)For a lot of his life, historian Howard Zinn chronicled American historical past from the underside up, throwing out the official model taught in colleges – with its emphasis on nice males in excessive locations – to give attention to the road, the house, and the office.Identified for its full of life, clear prose in addition to its scholarly analysis, A Individuals’s Historical past of america is the one quantity to inform America’s story from the perspective of – and within the phrases of – America’s girls, manufacturing unit staff, African-Individuals, Native Individuals, the working poor, and immigrant laborers. As Zinn exhibits, a lot of our nation’s biggest battles – the fights for a good wage, an eight-hour workday, child-labor legal guidelines, well being and security requirements, common suffrage, girls’s rights, racial equality – had been carried out on the grassroots stage, in opposition to bloody resistance.Overlaying Christopher Columbus’ arrival by means of President Clinton’s first time period, A Individuals’s Historical past of america options insightful evaluation of an important occasions in our historical past.
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