A People's History of the United States: 1492 to the Present by Howard Zinn

The twentieth anniversary edition of the author's acclaimed "bottom-up" history of the U.S. tosses out sanitized history and hero-worship in favor of a man-on-the-street approach emphasizing the nation's great struggles for a fare wage, universal suffrage, woman's rights, racial equality, child labor laws, and health and safety standards. Tour.