While many have heard of this book, seen it  pictured in popular culture even on an episode of the HBO series the Soprano’s, it is beyond safe to say that few people have read it in its entirety, and even fewer understand the labor history that it covers.

History as well as beauty is recognizable through the eyes of the beholder.  History is not objective in the least; it is written from a perspective, vantage point and sometimes clear political agenda.

Hence the very title of the book “A Peoples History of the United States” prepares the reader to adjust their thinking to understand what is written from the masses of the people’s perspective of an event or time from the bottom up.  Often the analysis is done from the perspective of a great individual “the great man theory of history” and not fully understood from the context of the masses of the people who lived during that time period.

We are reminded in this book that history is not made by individuals but by the collective work, struggle and sacrifice of  large numbers of people.  Leaders at best are spokesmen/women who capture and give voice to what the people are feeling and doing.

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The Occupy Wall Street movement of a few years ago is only seen as an aberration in the normal course of events because the labor struggles, workers struggles, poor people’s struggles for economic justice has been largely forgotten.  Perhaps even purposefully hidden.

Read this book!

Submitted by Christopher A. Clarke on 11/12/14. 

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