Select language, opens an overlay

Comment

Aug 17, 2020hallsan rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
History is like sitting for a portrait with full makeup and only seeing the "good side." That portrait is you, true, but it's also not the everyday you. It's not the business casual or the relaxed you. It's usually you at your most pompous and so it history. Some people only want that story told, and that's what we get taught in school. Schools don't teach about the warts and age spots, but Zinn makes a point of showing us in our realness, not just in our fakeness, makeup and fully lit. Some people only want the "spin doctor" version told. Or, heaven forbid, outright lies and revisionist history. History is too important to leave in the hands of the spin doctors and liars, so Zinn is required reading.