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Review title: Ambitious and Intriguing
Product review: I combed through as many of the 450 reviews on this book as I could, and I noticed that one fact was missing from all of them: there is no book on U.S. History with as ambitious a scope as Howard Zinn's. If you're lucky you can find treatises as sweeping as McPherson's tomb on reconstruction, or David Kennedy's work on the New Deal -- very, very good books with broad topical approaches, yet extremely narrow in their chronological scope. There must be a couple of books on U.S. History analyzing the "revolutionary" to present-day U.S. I am positive there is not one book other than Zinn's that attempts to cover as long a period as the last 500 years.Zinn's "people"-perspective definitely is only one of many possible approaches to history. Yet his narrow analytical approach to long-term history makes for a fun read. Try to make a book on 500 years a "fun read" -- you'll have a hard time coming up with anything better than Zinn.
