Books this year: a book diary

I’ve wanted to read this book for a long time, and finally got around to it this year. I have to say, it was everything I hoped it could be.

The book is what it sounds like. Zinn attempts to tell the story of US History from the side of the people instead of the ruling classes, the elite, or the establishment. He spends a good deal of time on issues of race, gender, minorities, labor and class struggles, slavery, war, and other forms of oppression.

There are some similarities with Lies My Teacher Told Me, but that book doesn’t attempt to be a comprehensive history as Zinn’s book does. I certainly learned a lot from it, and am very happy to have read it.

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