![]() As millions of America’s youth are radicalizing and looking to understand the country’s real history, A People’s History remains popular. Published in 1980, A People’s History has sold over two million copies and still plays a role in exposing new generations to the atrocious crimes of the American ruling class over the last three centuries. Above all, he took it upon himself to fight against the idea that only “great men” make history and instead explained history from the “bottom-up”-that is, from the perspective of the exploited and oppressed. The son of two Jewish immigrant factory workers, Zinn dedicated himself to popularizing the many episodes in American history that have been distorted or ignored by mainstream bourgeois intellectuals. Few books have received as much attention on the American left as Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States. ![]()
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