Why haven't you read this yet?

Why haven't you read this yet?

Don't really have any interest in american history honestly, is this a good read?

>Zinn was born to aJewishimmigrant family inBrooklynon August 24, 1922

>USA
>history

Colonies-slavery-racism-mexico-drumpf
There saved you 12 hours of reading

Oh hey that’s my birthday

>howard zinn

It's shit.

i have read it

It's not a real history book. About half of it is Zinn's personal opinions about the ruling class

Wow, a 95 year old on Veeky Forums.

Dandolo is that you?

And?

>drumpf

Zinn died in 2010 (Trump didn't become President until last year)

Garbage. He was doing it to make a point and not to write an accurate history book. The amount of hipsters who reference this nonsense in history conversations is fucking embarrassing.

>August 24th is my girlfriend's birthday
>it's also the day the CSS Alabama was commissioned in the Confederate Navy

>be columbus
>risk a death of scurvy exploring atlantic
>find land
>make friends with a local tribe
>note they are all battered and beaten
>learn their language
>they tell of another tribe that treats them like human garbage
>1 ship is wrecked and leave some crew behind with them
>sail around a bit
>meet this other tribe which greets you with a fuckton of arrows
>ok we're done here, sail home
>come back on 2nd voyage to trade manufactured goods for all the gold they have
>the crew you left behind have been slaughtered and the nice tribe has been scattered
>mfw

I have. It was terrible.

No, it's not really history. Zinn ascribes to the following reasoning.

>It is impossible to write truly objective history. Even with the absolute best of intentions, inevitably a writer will form a narrative, if in no other way by including what he or she thinks is important and not including what he or she thinks is irrelevant.
>Since it is impossible to write with 100% objectivity, you shouldn't bother trying, and instead just inform your readers up-front what you are doing and what you think your biases are.

He's more of a columnist, or a demagogue than a historian, and it shows.

>ITZ
>DA
(((((((((((((JJJJJJOOOOOOOOOZZZZZZZZZZZ))))))))))))

white american bad tier history book

not in the least bit interested in that tired and lazy trope

>start reading
>fucking white people
>republicans REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

Into the trash it went.

SHUT IT DOWN

I read it (listened to it on audiobook desu). I don't think it's terribly outright dishonest, but it obviously takes a single stance and presents history through a single, particularly limited lens. He falls into that same pitfall that so many lefties fall into of 'objectivity is a myth.' This is kind of like saying, 'I can never have the perfect body, so why should I go to the gym?' It's fucking retarded.

because I like to read history without the slave morality propaganda.

>People's history of the united states