A review by jmtanner
A Young People's History of the United States: Columbus to the War on Terror by Howard Zinn

3.0

Perhaps it’s because Zinn has pretty wide exposure at this point, but I didn’t find this to be the radical text I was expecting. I should probably read the “adult” version as this “student” edition left me wanting when it came to details. The amount of content being covered (and the desire to keep this from being 3 million pages long) kept this explanation of events very surface level. Kids can handle more primary source examples than this provided as well, though a good teacher would know to supplement with those. It was fine, but not inspiring on its own.