A people's history of the United States : 1492-present

Summary: Presents the history of the United States from the point of view of those who were exploited in the name of American progress.

Record details

ISBN: 0060838655 (pbk.)
ISBN: 9780060838652 (pbk.)
Physical Description: print
729 pages, 16 pages ; 21 cm.
Publisher: Originally published : New York : HarperCollins, c2003. [New ed.]

General Note:	"P.S.: insights, interviews & more ..."--16 p. following main text.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (p. [689]-708) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Columbus, the Indians, and human progress -- Drawing the color line -- Persons of mean and vile condition -- Tyranny is tyranny -- A kind of revolution -- The intimately oppressed -- As long as grass grows or water runs -- We take nothing by conquest, thank God -- Slavery without submission, emancipation without freedom -- The other civil war -- Robber barons and rebels -- The empire and the people -- The socialist challenge -- War is the health of the state -- Self-help in hard times -- A people's war? -- "Or does it explode?" -- The impossible victory: Vietnam -- Surprises -- The seventies: under control? -- Carter-Reagan-Bush: the bipartisan consensus -- The unreported resistance -- The coming revolt of the guards -- The Clinton presidency -- The 2000 election and the "war on terrorism." -- Afterword.