![]() ![]() My favorite sections were about the 60s: civil rights, war protests, and the rise of feminism. ![]() I listened to this on audio CD (read by the talented Matt Damon), and the edition focused on the events of the Twentieth Century, including the Vietnam War, the women's movement, the Civil Rights Era, the Clinton presidency and the infamous Bush v. In other words, my focus is not on the achievements of the heroes of traditional history, but on all those people who were the victims of those achievements, who suffered silently or fought back magnificently." In the preface to the updated edition about the Twentieth Century, Zinn wrote: "It is obvious in the very first pages of the larger People's History, when I tell about Columbus and emphasize not his navigational skill and fortitude in making his way to the Western Hemisphere, but his cruel treatment of the Indians he found here, torturing them, exterminating them in his greed for gold, his desperation to bring riches to his patrons back in Spain. Instead of telling the stories of the victors, Howard Zinn focused on those who have been oppressed in the United States. ![]() I loved this so much that I'm going to resort to hyperbole: If you read only one book about American history, let it be this one. ![]()
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