I hate that book with a passion, it and all of its ilk. Its basically History as emotionalist-sentimental porn.
it comes with strong recommendation from Will Hunting.
And Jason Bourne.
I didn't really enjoy it. It's as if Zinn literally looked at every historical event in our nation's history and said "what if the other guys were the good guys?" It's as if he simply assumes that if WASPS did something it was automatically bad. He was a gifted writer and a pretty smart dude, but his premiss is misguided. In some circumstances he's right, but in most he just comes off as totally ideologically driven.
Also, for some good laughs check out the cartoon edition. That is if you want to see a snarling Teddy Roosevelt killing Cubans.
