Evil America for the Masses! (Liberal Revisionist History Textbook in Comic Book Form)-Howard Zinn

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[lieutenant columbo]

Howard Zinn's 'People's History of American Empire" shows U.S. as bad guy

"A People's History of American Empire" (Howard Zinn: Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt & Co)

Howard Zinn is famous for his 1980 book, "A People's History of the United States." If history is usually written by the victors, Zinn tells it from the view of the oppressed, be they workers exploited by robber barons or minorities denied due rights.

It's basically the same story here, but with cartoons. This is an illustrated history of America's often deadly meddling around the globe. ....The villain in this book is the United States....Zinn has a habit of presenting every action by U.S. officials as sinister....If President Harry Truman gave a millisecond of thought about sparing the lives of American troops when he decided to drop the atomic bomb, there's no mention of it here. Instead the decision is cast as a bid to keep Russia out of postwar Japan.

The illustrations are simple and emotive, matching the often grim material.... The drawings aren't the only things that are black and white in this book......

[lieutenant columbo]

This is genius by Zinn--American history in graphic novel format for the illiterate. Note that this gem is published by Holt, one of the leading textbook publishers in the United States. Now all the children who are illiterate can look at the pictures and also be indoctrinated. I bet this comic book will be mass distributed in prisons, too.

[Thrownatbirth]

Not every lib-in-training can go to Columbia for the big ticket indoctrination.

[thegreatestgeneration]

A People's History of the United States is a book that should be read by every American, right wing, left wing, or right down the middle. It isn't a liberal book at all - in fact, democrats were not even a political party in those days. They didn't even exist.

Zinn tells a story that is tough to hear but we must, as a nation, understand exactly where we come from, if only so we do not repeat the mistakes of our past. It's sad but true: our nation, and the nation of Australia, have a very dark past, rooted in slavery & genocide in the name of progress. Anyone out there who disagrees does not truly understand our history. If you consider yourself a true intelligent American, you should read this book.

[reg45]

I want a time machine so that I can put Howard Zinn into the first wave in the invasion of Japan (without the use of nuclear weapons of course). But then, if I know Howard, he would start shooting at his fellow Americans.

[miliantnutcase]

Yeah...that’s pretty much the history of every nation.

[rmlew]

Zinn is at the Peoples Republic of Cambridge (formerly Haarvawd), not the Students Revolutionary Republic of Morningside Heights (Columbia).

[MarkL]

It's sad but true: our nation, and the nation of Australia, have a very dark past, rooted in slavery & genocide in the name of progress.

Please name a single nation or society that doesn't have what we now consider to be "bad" or even "evil" behavior as a part of its origin. Just name one, I'll wait. What people like this love to do is try to judge previous generations by modern mores, and then to condemn the modern society based on those older generations. Never mind that the modern society has corrected and in some ways, atoned for those "original sins." Something that's inherently unfair, and is usually nothing more than attempting to justify other bad behavior.

Mark