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Howard Zinn's
A People's History of the United States was good. Zinn's voice highlights all of the injustices and abuses of power throughout US history to better highlight how/why things are the way they are today. It's essentially all the history you learn in middle-high school, only better, because it's the real the real thing. I saw it recommended on 2+2 and was glad I picked it up.
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I've been reading this for a while now and "insofar" it seems as if Zinn criticizes government abuses, yet dissaproves of any non-socialist policies, which is sort of contradictory.
I will say that he is a very good writer, and if I may, I'll qoute a passage that I liked;
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"And to bind that loyalty with something more powerful even than material advantage, the ruling group found, in the 1760s and 1770s, a wonderfully useful device. That device was the language of liberty and equality, which could unite just enough whites to fight a Revolution against England, without ending either slavery or inequality."
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