Currently in its 25th printing, with over 425,000 copies sold, this acclaimed work presents more than 500 years of American social and cultural history, going well beyond wars and presidencies to tell the stories of working men and women. For the first time, the author has abridged the original text for classroom use.
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Currently in its 25th printing, with over 425,000 copies sold, this acclaimed work presents more than 500 years of American social and cultural history, going well beyond wars and presidencies to tell the stories of working men and women. For the first time, the author has abridged the original text for classroom use.
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Seller's Description:
Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's original black cloth with spine stamped in gilt. Near Fine with light soiling to the textblock edge and a small rubber stamp to the bottom edge. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with subtle spine fading, light edge wear and a small nick to the front spine joint but on the whole a much nicer copy that normally encountered. Zinn's magnum opus in which he offers a different side of history from the more traditional "fundamental nationalist glorification of country."
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Very good in very good dust jacket. Ex-library. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 614 p. Audience: General/trade. Harper & Row, 1980. Hardcover. Book Condition: Collectible: Very Good in Near Fine DJ. First Edition. First Printing. With a flyer for the authors play "Marx in Soho" signed by the author laid in. In Very Good+ condition, in a near fine dust jacket, with price intact. Clean pages. Sound binding. A lovely copy of Zinn's magnum opus. Ex-library; Only two library marks. "PROPERTY OF US NAVY" stamped on the side and the catalogue number at bottom of spine.
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Very good in very good dust jacket. Signed by author. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 614 p. Audience: General/trade. Item: Harper & Row, New York, 1980. First edition of the historian's magnum opus. Thick Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Howard Zinn on the ffp. VG in a near VG dust jacket with a few small closed tears. A very nice copy as most copies were read and re-read. The New York Times wrote that author "[P]rofessor Zinn writes with an enthusiasm rarely encountered in the leaden prose of academic history, and his text is studded with telling quotations from labor leaders, war resisters and fugitive slaves. There are vivid descriptions of events that are usually ignored, such as the great railroad strike of 1877 and the brutal suppression of the Philippine independence movement at the turn of this century. Professor Zinn's chapter on Vietnam-bringing to life once again the free-fire zones, secret bombings, massacres and cover-ups-should be required reading for a new generation of students now facing conscription." Howard Fast declared A People's History to be "[o]ne of the most important books I have ever read in a long life of reading. It's a wonderful, splendid book-a book that should be read by every American, student or otherwise, who wants to understand his country, its true history, and its hope for the future." Named by TIME Magazine as one of the 100 best and most influential non-fiction books since 1923.
Should be titled "What they Didn't Teach Me About History in School"
toshio11
Oct 22, 2009
The seller did an excellent job of responding to my purchase when filled, I appreciate the speed of the delivery which was fast. The book was exactly as described and I would recommend it to anyone!! Thanks