The Twentieth Century: A People's HistoryHarper Collins, 13 жовт. 2009 р. - 512 стор. “Professor Zinn writes with an enthusiasm rarely encountered in the leaden prose of academic history....[His] chapter on Vietnam—bringing to life once again the fire-free zones, secret bombings, massacres, and cover-ups—should be required reading.”—New York Times Book Review Containing just the Twentieth Century chapters from Howard Zinn’s bestselling A People’s History of the United States, this reissue is brought up-to-date with coverage of events and developments since 2001, analyzing such incidents in modern political history such as the Gulf War, the post-Cold War “peace dividend,” and the continuing debate over welfare, the Clinton presidency, and the “war on terrorism.” Highlighting not just the usual terms of presidential administrations and congressional activities, this book provides readers with a “bottom-to-top” perspective, giving voice to our nation’s minorities and letting the stories of such groups as African Americans, women, Native Americans, and the laborers of all nationalities be told in their own words. Challenging traditional interpretations of U.S. history, The Twentieth Century is the book for readers interested in gaining a more realistic and complete picture of our world." |
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... fighting , whatever it may be , we are animated by a new sensation . We are face to face with a strange destiny . The taste of Empire is in the mouth of the people even as the taste of blood in the jungle .... Was that taste in the ...
... fighting races .... No triumph of peace is quite so great as the supreme triumph of war . " Roosevelt was contemptuous of races and nations he consid- ered inferior . When a mob in New Orleans lynched a number of Italian immigrants ...
... fighting their Spanish conquerors for three years in an attempt to win independence . By that time , it was possible to create a national mood for intervention . It seems that the business interests of the nation did not at first want ...
... fight . The third group was a coalition of businessmen , intellectuals , and politicians who opposed traditional colonialism and advocated instead a policy of an open door through which America's preponderant economic strength would ...
... fighting a war for their own liberation . The United States government , how- ever , the conservative product of another revolutionary war , had power and profit in mind as it observed the events in Cuba . Nei- ther Cleveland ...
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45634 | 77 |
SELFHELP IN HARD TIMES | 99 |
VIETNAM | 213 |
8 | 278 |
UNDER CONTROL? | 301 |
THE BIPARTISAN CONSENSUS | 328 |
THE UNREPORTED RESISTANCE | 376 |
THE COMING REVOLT | 413 |
THE CLINTON PRESIDENCY | 426 |
THE 2000 ELECTION | 466 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | 476 |
INDEX | 489 |
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