A Young People's History of the United States
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<DIV><p>Volumes One and Two of the bestselling series now in a single enhanced edition!</p><p>Now in paperback with illustrations, this is the new, revised, and updated single volume young adult edition of Howard Zinn’s classic telling of American history. <I>A Young People’s History of the United States</I> brings to US history the viewpoints of workers, slaves, immigrants, women, Native Americans, and others whose stories, and their impact, are rarely included in books for young people. <I>A Young People’s History of the United States</I> is also a companion volume to <I>The People Speak</I>, Zinn’s forthcoming televised series, adapted from <I>A People’s History of the United States</I> and <I>Voices of a People’s History of the United States</I>.</p><p>Beginning with a look at Christopher Columbus’ arrival through the eyes of the Arawak Indians; then leading the reader through the struggles for workers’ rights, women’s rights, and civil rights during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; and ending with the current protests against continued American imperialism, Zinn presents a radical new way of understanding America’s history. In so doing, he reminds readers that America’s true greatness is shaped by our dissident voices, not our military generals.</p><p><B>Howard Zinn</B> is the author of numerous books, including <I>A People's History of the United States</I>, as well as many recent books published by Seven Stories Press: <I>Voices of a People’s History of the United States</I> and <I>Terrorism and War</I>, both with Anthony Arnove; <I>The Zinn Reader</I>; and the Spanish-language edition of <I>A People’s History of the United States</I>, <I>La otra historia</I>. He is professor emeritus of political science at Boston University. <B>Rebecca Stefoff</B> is the author of many books for children and young adults, including a biography of the Shawnee chieftain Tecumseh and her adaptation of Ronald Takaki’s award-winning history of Asian Americans, <I>Strangers from a Different Shore</I>.</p><p>Young People's History of the US</p></DIV>
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