A PEOPLE'S HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES

First Edition, and not a "remaindered" copy. Very Scarce Thus. 8vo, publisher's original navy cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine, in the dustjacket printed in black, red and manila white. 614 pp. A fine copy internally, clean and fresh and in the well-preserved dustjacket which has some light rubbing to the extremities.

Edizione: howard zinn's masterful retelling of american history. the book was a runner-up in 1980 for the national book award. it frequently has been revised. in 2003, zinn was awarded the prix des amis du monde diplomatique for the french version of this book une histoire populaire des états-unis.[3] more than two million copies have been sold.<br> in a 1998 interview, zinn said he had set "quiet revolution" as his goal for writing a people's history. "not a revolution in the classical sense of a seizure of power, but rather from people beginning to take power from within the institutions."<br> professional historians have often viewed zinn's work with exasperation or condescension, and zinn was no innocent in the dynamic. i stood against the wall for a zinn talk at the university of oregon around the time of the 1992 columbus quincentenary. listening to zinn, one would have thought historians still considered samuel eliot morison's 1955 book on columbus to be definitive. the crowd lapped it up, but zinn knew better. he missed a chance to explain how the social movements of the 1960s and 1970s have transformed the writing and teaching of history, how his people's history did not spring out of thin air but was an effort to synthesize a widely shared shift in historical sensibilities. zinn's historical theorizing, conflating objectivity with neutrality and position with bias, was no better. the critics would be churlish, however, not to acknowledge the moving example zinn set in the civil-rights and vietnam movements, and they would be remiss not to note the value of a people's history, along with its limitations. zinn told tales well, stories that, while familiar to historians, often remained unknown to wider publics. he challenged national pieties and encouraged critical reflection about received wisdom. he understood that america's various radicalisms, far from being "un-american," have propelled the nation toward more humane and democratic arrangements. and he sold two-million copies of a work of history in a culture that is increasingly unwilling to read and, consequently, unable to imagine its past very well. phelps, christopher (february 1, 2010). "howard zinn, philosopher" – via the chronicle of higher education.