|
|
|
|
| Keyword Search: The Ting Tings |
|
|
| HomeKeyword Search: The Ting Tings |
|
|  | | | Customer Reviews: | | | Average Customer Review:
Write an online review and share your thoughts with other customers.
 Zinn Review Nov 16, 2009
I got what I wanted. Its a good book, I'm glad to have now seen both sides.
0 of 4 found the following review helpful:
 Typical Revisionist Screed Nov 13, 2009
This is just another piece of liberal revisionist screed about how bad America and Americans have been and are. Puke, Puke!
0 of 6 found the following review helpful:
No info on US history, just sad stories about proletariat. Oct 24, 2009
This book can be named anything else, but US History-there is little history and less US here.
An Important Read Oct 15, 2009
I read this book - at least parts of it - in one of my major history courses. It was required not only because Zinn is a knowledgeable historian but also because he offers a perspective very different to the one learned in middle school and high school.
The trick to reading any book by any historian (or any other non-fiction book, for that matter) is to THINK like a historian. Take into account the historiography. When was this book written? What was happening at that time? The Cold War? World War II? The "War on Terror," rooted in conflicts from the middle east? All of these things, in addition to the author's personal experience, create huge biases. None of us are without bias. Take that into account while reading this book in addition to any others. Howard Zinn fought in World War II and witnessed all of that death and saw no reason for it. He became highly critical of war and joined many social reform (not to be confused with socialist) movements. While he is not exactly anti-government, he is not a huge fan of capitalism and less so of imperialism, both of which he sees as causes for American atrocities.
Taking that into account, overlook some of his more extreme language and take this book as exactly what it is - an INTERPRETATION of history. That's all a historian can ever do - interpret history.
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
History without the story Oct 15, 2009
This book is a real eye opener. I had thought that things had been getting worse in U.S. politics - Media spin , Deceit, Corporate control etc. Now I see that only the technology has changed. A must read for anyone that really wants to see the truth about the MYTH of America that we peddle in school.
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
![Up (4 Disc Combo Pack with Digital Copy and DVD) [Blu-ray]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51V%2Beipy8-L._SL75_.jpg "Up (4 Disc Combo Pack with Digital Copy and DVD) [Blu-ray]")
![Across the Universe [Blu-ray]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51T24FuHPEL._SL75_.jpg "Across the Universe [Blu-ray]")
![Underworld Trilogy (Underworld / Underworld: Evolution / Underworld: Rise of the Lycans) [Blu-ray]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51F27VzUl%2BL._SL75_.jpg "Underworld Trilogy (Underworld / Underworld: Evolution / Underworld: Rise of the Lycans) [Blu-ray]")
![Shakira: Oral Fixation Tour [Blu-ray]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51RQUEopdlL._SL75_.jpg "Shakira: Oral Fixation Tour [Blu-ray]")
