People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present (P.S.) - Howard Zinn

If history books should be looked at as literature, Howard Zinn is always in between a rock and a hard place for me. His details are never dense enough to compare to the best of the thickest history books. All history books are bias, but Zinn represents a deep bias. I sometimes believe he would be better served to structure his books along the lines of issues and ideas instead of straight history by date and event. He wouldn't remind me so much of how he seems to be a spokesperson first and not an academic historian. That being said, he handles the subjects well. It would be frivolous to say I either agree or sympathize with most of what he says. The truly revealing moments come in ideas that are controversial but agreed in other historical books by conservative writers. Example would be the condeming of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and why the United States did it.