A People's History Of The United States Av Howard Zinn

This is a new edition of the radical social history of America from Columbus to the present. <P>This powerful and controversial study turns orthodox American history upside down to portray the social turmoil behind the "march of progress". </P>Known for its lively, clear prose as well as its scholarly research, <EM>A People''s History </EM>is the only volume to tell America''s story from the point of view of - and in the words of - America''s women, factory workers, African-Americans, Native Americans, the working poor, and immigrant laborers. As historian Howard Zinn shows, many of America''s greatest battles - the fights for fair wage, an eight-hour workday, child-labor laws, health and safety standards, universal suffrage, women''s rights, racial equality - were carried out at the grassroots level, against bloody resistance. Covering Christopher Columbus''s arrival through the Clinton years <EM>A People''s History of the United States</EM>, which was nominated for the American

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