📚 Zinn, Howard - A People's History Of The United States (v1.1)

Okay, so, let's talk about... okay, here we go. So, there's this book, right? And this chapter is all about... well, a whole bunch of stuff, actually. It's basically an overview of early American hist...

Okay, so you know, a lot of people think about indentured servants and they kind of, I don't know, gloss over it, right? But it's like, no, these people, they were bought and sold, just like slaves, s...

Okay, so, like, imagine this: the governor of Massachusetts and all the other political bigwigs? They started getting, like, seriously freaked out. Samuel Adams, the guy everyone thought was, you know...

Okay, here we go. So, like, Chapter 5, right? It's all about this, like, really tense time in American history. You gotta remember, the country was totally divided, and it wasn't just about, you know,...

Okay, so, like, you know how we've been talking about all this stuff, right? So, let's talk about President Benjamin Harrison, you know, the Republican. So, this writer, Matthew Josephson, called him ...

Okay, so like, you know, chapter seven... This is where things, um, really start to heat up. So, the mayor, like, immediately calls in the local militia. And, oh yeah, the governor? He's ordering out ...

Okay, so, like, you know how we're always talking about war and patriotism and all that stuff? Well, something that often gets kinda overlooked is how much dissent there actually was, even during time...

Alright, so, uh, this is, well, it's kind of a long one, but really interesting stuff. So, basically, back in the, uh, mid-sixties, even high-up folks in the CIA and the Defense Department, they were,...

Okay, so, like, where do I even start? This whole thing, you know, with taxes and government… it's a mess. So, like, these higher payroll taxes? Can you believe it? Three-fourths of the wage earners w...