PERSONAL HISTORY
Wasserman, Harvey
Personal History HARVEY WASSERMAN'S HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES by Harvey Wasserman Four Walls Eight Windows, P.O. Box 548, Village Station, New York, NY 10014. 262 pp. $6.95 paper. When the...
...Here at last was a book that gave us American history as the story of struggling human beings, not the saga of "leaders...
...Now, with a bit of updating and revising, Harvey Wasserman's History is available again...
...And here was a history that told it the way it was, beginning with its opening sentence, "The Civil War made a few businessmen very rich...
...But his focus on people, his refreshing candor, and his genial style should recommend the book to a new generation that needs to discover the history that isn't taught in school...
...When the original edition of Harvey Was-serman's History of the United States was published in 1972, it became an instant favorite of the activists who thought of themselves as the 1960s generation...
...his History won't work as a basic reference text...
...Wasserman, an occasional contributor to The Progressive and other publications and a veteran of many political battles—especially against nuclear power—is an idiosyncratic historian...
Vol. 53 • March 1989 • No. 3
