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Summary Of Chapter 12 Of A People's History Of The United States

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In A People's History of the United States Howard Zinn goes on to argue that what has been recorded throughout all of the history of the United States has been full of deception, lying to the people of this nation. In the chapter that I have, which is chapter 12, the empire and its people is mainly about how people with power can mislead a nation for many generations. Leading the people from a problem that truly needs to be overcome, yet distracting the citizens of this country, the same leaders that we choose create problems so that the people are distracted. At the start of chapter 12, Howard Zinn states how in 1897 President Theodore Roosevelt wrote that if given the chance to join a war, he would see how the country needed one. As a method
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