audiobook The Holocaust: Selected Documents in Eighteen Volumes by John Mendelsohn in History

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Upon its first publication in 2001 as the inaugural volume in The New Press People’s History series; edited by the late Howard Zinn; Ray Raphael’s magisterial A People’s History of the American Revolution was hailed by Fresh Air as “relentlessly aggressive and unsentimental.” With impeccable skill; Raphael presented a wide array of fascinating scholarship within a single volume; employing a bottom-up approach that has served as a revelation to thousands of Americans. A People’s History of the American Revolution draws upon diaries; personal letters; and other Revolutionary-era treasures; weaving a thrilling; “you are there” narrative—“a tapestry that uses individual experiences to illustrate the larger stories” (Los Angeles Times Book Review). In the trademark style of Howard Zinn; Raphael shifts the focus away from George Washington and Thomas Jefferson to the slaves they owned; the Indians they displaced; and the men and boys who did the fighting. This “remarkable perspective on a familiar part of American history” (Kirkus) helps us appreciate more fully the incredible diversity of the American Revolution by helping us see it through different sets of eyes.