Committed, stimulant, and very well written

This popular history of the United States is a history of US imperialism, capitalist exploitation, racism and slavery, and the oppression of women in the United States. It is also and above all a story of those - men and women of the left, blacks, Indians, Latinos, etc. - Who opposed with courage, and sometimes successfully. It is a book that opens your eyes to the injustices and conflicts of interest that have always existed and continue to exist. A book that makes you want to fight for a better world by following the example of heroes and heroines of known or unknown.

In the words of the author himself, a historian must be fair and respect the facts, but it can not be neutral because it has to choose whether to speak or not of a particular event (talk about anything is impossible), and because it inevitably chooses the way he speaks - in correspondence to a judgment on the events. Moreover, it is not necessarily desirable that historiography is amoral and apolitical: it is good to train our ethical and political awareness with regard to history.

However, this book is anything but a purely ideological work. It is remarkably well documented and well written, with a back-and-forth between constant history "large-scale" and scenes and testimonies that make it extremely vivid account.

I had always bored in history class at school. This book made me want to devour the history books. I do not recommend it enough!