A People's History of the United States

The book provides great insight into the making of the United States, after the landing of Saint Columbus, and covering a very long period-till the presidency of Bill Clinton. The book really tells about the events faced by the common people, in making of the country. Recording the history of a nation requires a lot of research and access to documents and records. There is enough evidence to this end, seeing the size of the book and the background notes and references made. Any serious reader will learn a great deal while studying the book. It can serve as an important reference book for all curious readers. While historic events have made the US a great country, the price paid by its people has been unbelievable. This is a must book for all who want understand history of nation building.

Mr Howard Zinn has done extensive research in writing this book. Great read for anyone wanting to know about the struggles of people before gaining independence.

It is an experience to read the book. A peoples's response to the rise of American Capitalism.

An amazing book that gives us an insight into the past of America, a must read for all the utterly bigotic trump supporters.

Brutally honest! I finished reading the 700 pages of American history with this lingering thought in my mind. USA is a land of immigrants and every year many hundreds of Indians vie for the visa or citizenship of this nation. I was incredibly curious to read about American history and this book satiated that curiosity. It covers the entire length of American history from Columbus landing to the events up to and following 9/11. That is a lot to cover and the book does it well. It covers in great details the revolution that led to American independence, the decades of black slavery that left the legacy of racism, the Vietnam war and other episodes of American incursions, how the Capitalist ideology gained and dominated successive US regimes with the resultant class strata in American society. The book can be somewhat overwhelming in details in patches and could have been better in its flow of narration, which I thought tended to switch between subjects rather sharply. But overall a very interesting read and brutally honest!

This is a must read for everyone.

Superb! History from the point of view of the vanquished!

A very well written book. A must read indeed