For those who've never heard of this book and its contents or who are unfamiliar with Howard Zinn, reading "A People's History of the United States" can be an emotionally and intellectually shocking experience. The book challenges perceptions and ideas of American history fostered by elementary and high school history classes, by brief television documentaries, and by the commonly held and oft-repeated beliefs held as a kind of societal memory of the USA. But from the first page Zinn shakes the conception of past America, not so much by challenging facts established elsewhere but pointing out facts that those other sources have let remain comfortably unremarked upon.
Zinn's history opens as many a schoolbook history of America do
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