Originally Posted by Bostonian
Originally Posted by jmiya
Thanks for the booklist.

I have heard that Zinn's People's History is very interesting, but I've not yet read it.
The author was an avowed socialist and wrote the book to advance socialism. If my children get the book from the library, so be it, but I would not recommend it to them. A review from the New York Times by Walter Kirn is here.

See, that's why I like it. However, I agree that it needs to be balanced with other views, so I wouldn't (and didn't) assign it in isolation.