A People's History of the United States

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American history is usually told as a widening circle of freedom. Howard Zinn tells it from the other side—from the perspective the privileged left out of the records, the view of the conquered, enslaved, and exploited. Seen that way, the country was not born free. It was born slave and free, servant and master, tenant and landlord, poor and rich. And the same machinery that held that arrangement together in 1676—war, race, and the fanfare of patriotism—is still running.

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A People's History of the United States