Richard Drinnon (1925–2012)

not very readable, and pretty dated at this point. Modern works such as the indigenous people’s history of the United States and other BLM-informed decolonization focused works probably suit the modern reader a bit better, but damn if this thing doesn’t have the RESEARCH. This is a great resource for people that don’t mind using discipline to slog through history books. I learned a huge amount, and have nothign but respect for Drinnon’s pathbreaking work. There’s a reason this book show more is cited in all the more modern and readable attempts at the topic! show less

A long time ago, it was my sommeone among my good-old, Leftist comrades in the Jam Rag community that recommended this American history with perceptive over of the unrecognized "American Empire" as crest of a wave of civilizing, wealth-gathering force that moved from London to New York then rough shod over the Plains and out across the Pacific into Philipines etc. and apparently will crest again in Shanghai...