A review by mattycakesbooks
A People's History of American Empire: The American Empire Project, a Graphic Adaptation by Paul Buhle, Mike Konopacki, Howard Zinn

4.0

I'm still in the very slow process of reading "A People's History of the United States," but I've got a thing for graphic novels, and I've got a thing for political writing, so I bought this on a whim - graphic novels, after all, are still pretty much useless on a Kindle. It's pretty damn good. Obviously hugely depressing, as all left-wing literature tends to be, when it focuses on the entrenchment of power... and obviously, it lacked some of the nuance I feel like I'm getting from APHOTUS, but I think this can be chalked up to the format more than the quality of the writing. At the very least, they didn't totally gloss over Sandino and Khomeini as character witnesses, so that was good. I do wish there was more on El Salvador (that being a personal interest of mine) to the extent of maybe including Oscar Romero in there, but hey, you can only ask for so much.

Zinn is fantastic, and the great thing about him is that he makes his agenda clear from the beginning. In knowing his agenda, you can guard yourself against his potential bias, which is a form of honesty that seems to be left out of most political accounts.