People's History of American Empire: The American Empire Project, a Graphic Adaptation (S&s Hdcvr)

Title: People's History of American Empire: The American Empire Project, a Graphic Adaptation (S&s Hdcvr)
Author: Zinn, Howard
ISBN: 9780805087444
Publisher: Metropolitan Books
Published: 2008
Binding: Quality
Language: English
Condition: New
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Staff Pick: Margaret Betts, Bookseller
This book is jarring to read, but it is a succinct retelling of many troubling parts of American History.

Staff Pick: Raymond Neal , Bookseller
In spite of the political implications of this small book, it manages to tell the facts in a direct and largely apolitical way. It is a great introduction to undertaught parts of U.S. history that we all should know.

Publisher Description:

Adapted from the bestselling grassroots history of the United States, the story of America in the world, told in comics form

Since its landmark publication in 1980, A People's History of the United States has had six new editions, sold more than 1.7 million copies, become required classroom reading throughout the country, and been turned into an acclaimed play. More than a successful book, A People's History triggered a revolution in the way history is told, displacing the official versions with their emphasis on great men in high places to chronicle events as they were lived, from the bottom up.

Now Howard Zinn, historian Paul Buhle, and cartoonist Mike Konopacki have collaborated to retell, in vibrant comics form, a most immediate and relevant chapter of A People's History: the centuries-long story of America's actions in the world. Narrated by Zinn, this version opens with the events of 9/11 and then jumps back to explore the cycles of U.S. expansionism from Wounded Knee to Iraq, stopping along the way at World War I, Central America, Vietnam, and the Iranian revolution. The book also follows the story of Zinn, the son of poor Jewish immigrants, from his childhood in the Brooklyn slums to his role as one of America's leading historians.

Shifting from world-shattering events to one family's small revolutions, A People's History of American Empire presents the classic ground-level history of America in a dazzling new form.