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A People's History of the United States 1492 to Present, Revised and Updated Edition

Howard Zinn

THE CLASSIC NATIONAL BESTSELLER Known for its lively, clear prose as well as its scholarly research

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The Ben Shapiro Show

This book was described as a very bad work filled with pseudo-history, which the speaker suggested was rooted in a communist or communist fellow traveler viewpoint, viewing American history as entirely evil.

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Howard Zinn was a professor at Boston University. He wrote a very bad book called The People's History of the United States. It is cribbed from a bunch of other sources, frankly, and it's filled with...

— Episode: Ep. 1351 - Yes, Happy Columbus Day

Episode: Ep. 1351 - Yes, Happy Columbus Day

This book was described as a very bad work filled with pseudo-history, which the speaker suggested was rooted in a communist or communist fellow traveler viewpoint, viewing American history as entirely evil.

"

Howard Zinn was a professor at Boston University. He wrote a very bad book called The People's History of the United States. It is cribbed from a bunch of other sources, frankly, and it's filled with a lot of pseudo-history.

Zinn was a communist, or at least a communist fellow traveler, and so much of his writing is rooted in an almost Soviet view of American history as just completely evil top to bottom dominated by capitalist rapaciousness.

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