Cards on the table, folks:  I go back and forth on whether Howard Zinn’s A People’s History accomplishes what I want it to accomplish for this course.  What I want it to do is this:  I want an alternative perspective, something besides Brinkley, that will provoke a response and prompt you all to form your own interpretation.  Whether Zinn is the best means to that end, I don’t know.  You can help me by giving feedback.  And maybe this recent NPR report on a movie version of the book, now in production, will help you form your own opinion.  If nothing else, you may be interested to know that a lot of people outside our class are reading and talking about Howard Zinn.  So listen, and respond.