A People's History of American Empire (Hardcover) by Howard Zinn, Paul Buhle, Mike Konopacki

from kiacyclic

A descent graphic adaptation of Zinn's "People's History of the United States." If you know the original well, you may find this to be a little bit of history repeating.

from EvaCatHerder

I really enjoyed the visual aspect that this book added to Howard Zinn's writing. However, I found that some of the fictionalized stories made a strong statement that was poorly substantiated. Zinn has a habit of making strong, sometimes counter-intuitive assertions, but usually backs them up wit...

from Othemts

When I was a kid I inherited my uncle's Mad magazine collection which had some comic books mixed in including a three-part series about the Civil War. This was a hagiographic history where all the soldiers called one another "Billy Yank" and "Johnny Reb" done in the style of Classics Illustrated....

from poonamsharma

This book is graphic novel version of Howard Zinn's popular history book 'A People's History of United States'. What the graphic novel format, I believe does is, increase the reach of this book by making it simple and more readable. It is concise history, should you want more - go dig stuff (deta...

from jtodd1973

The graphic format ultimately seems to be little more than a "Let's Make This Appealing to People Who Don't Like to Read" trope.