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Mar 17, 2015Twiggzette rated this title 1 out of 5 stars
I will not recommend Zinn’s History except for two groups of readers --- students NOT included. First, adults who are deeply concerned by, or are studying, the highly destructive effects that extreme political correctness & radical activism and their resulting historical revisionism (and other revisionist disciplines like English, political science, economics, and sociology) are having upon the relevance of K-12 and university educations in the USA. (Whew! That’s a run-on sentence. My bad!) Second, people who already agree with Zinn and who want a “rollicking good yarn” to inspire them and to validate their revisionist beliefs and their reasons for existence, whatever they are worth in the real scheme of things. For those who want to study REAL US history, there are far better texts than this, most of them written before the ‘60’s. I suggest that you go to your public libraries and browse the history shelves for books that are far more accurate and relevant than this well-written but academically biased screed. I have my favorites and you should find yours. To each his own. I won’t tell you what to read. You decide of your own free volition. Unlike at school or university, it's a free world, not a politically correct one. As for Zinn and his books, there is a quotation I learned to heart while at university. “No one is ever a complete failure. He can always serve as a bad example.” That quote sums up this book and its author.