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A Young People's History of the United States, Volume 2: Class Struggle to the War On Terror by Howard Zinn

lieslindi's review

I'm still enjoying this and have no problem with the author's perspective or technique. The audio format is problematic, however. In the first eight-hour chunk, there was a significant stretch of silence and then the narrator asking whether he's still live (or something). That should have been edited out. The narrator, Jeff Zinn, I assume is Howard Zinn's son. He pronounces the Schuykill River as "Shooler." Don't these production companies have the spoken equivalent of a copyeditor?

ETA that the next time the Schuykill came up the narrator improved it to "Skooler." The first time he mentioned the president who came between Cleveland's two terms, he said "Harris." Also, god help me, he sang a song, a dirge that arose from farmers getting the short end of the plough.