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Title: A People's History of the United States
Subtitle: 1492 to Present
Author: Howard Zinn
Narrator: Jeff Zinn
Format: Unabridged
Length: 34 hrs and 12 mins
Language: English
Release date: 12-14-09
Publisher: HarperAudio
Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 3713 votes
Genres: History, American
Publisher's Summary:
A classic since its original landmark publication in 1980, Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States is the first scholarly work to tell America's story from the bottom up - from the point of view of, and in the words of, America's women, factory workers, African-Americans, Native Americans, the working poor, and immigrant laborers.
From Columbus to the Revolution to slavery and the Civil War - from World War II to the election of George W. Bush and the "War on Terror" - A People's History of the United States is an important and necessary contribution to a complete and balanced understanding of American history.
Critic Reviews:
"Zinn's work is a vital corrective to triumphalist accounts." (
Publishers Weekly)
Members Reviews:
Amateur hour in the production booth
This has to be the most poorly produced audiobook of all time. With a work of this length - roughly 35 hours - I understand there are several challenges in putting everything together, but here it's like whoever was doing the recording wasn't even trying. Consider. 1) Starting sometime between the 90 minute and 2 hour mark, a number of obvious and jarring cuts, with the narrator dropping out suddenly, and then resuming speech in the middle of a different sentence. This issue seems to settle down after roughly the 5 hour mark. 2) Different audio levels for different recording sessions. After a cut, the narrator returns notably louder or quieter, and with a different level of white noise in the background. 3) At the 5 hour and 46 minute mark, the narrator says "hold on", and then engages in a conversation with the recording engineer, and this was never edited out of the final product. This means the publishers didn't listen to this audiobook even one time for quality control before putting it out in the wild. Shameful, and this is a product of unacceptably low quality. 2 stars for the wealth of content and Jeff Zinn's effort in recording well over 30 hours of speech, but minus 3 stars for a final product that could have been put together better by a motivated middle schooler.
Horrible Editing Ruins Experience
I was looking forward to listening to this audiobook, but as I worked my way through it, the horrible production quality ruined the experience for me.
Jeff Zinn's narration is fantastic, the subject matter interesting, but there are numerous spots where the audio editor chopped off half of a word. On a long car trip, these jarring "jump cuts" were too much to tolerate. Did nobody quality-check this audiobook before releasing it?
Narration SUCKS and poor production!
The narrator sucks! The production was poor. I read most of the comments and was like it can not be that bad. They must have fix some problems because I did not hear a few that were mentioned through out the comments. The narrators voice gets loud then soft many times. Sometimes so soft that I have to crank up the volume and then all of a sudden the guy is screaming. I did find myself laughing at the way he tried to read people's names and when he was trying to read the writings from African Americans. Although the information was very good, it would have helped the book out if they add more chapters to break the information down.
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Title: A People's History of the United States
Subtitle: 1492 to Present
Author: Howard Zinn
Narrator: Jeff Zinn
Format: Unabridged
Length: 34 hrs and 12 mins
Language: English
Release date: 12-14-09
Publisher: HarperAudio
Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 3713 votes
Genres: History, American
Publisher's Summary:
A classic since its original landmark publication in 1980, Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States is the first scholarly work to tell America's story from the bottom up - from the point of view of, and in the words of, America's women, factory workers, African-Americans, Native Americans, the working poor, and immigrant laborers.
From Columbus to the Revolution to slavery and the Civil War - from World War II to the election of George W. Bush and the "War on Terror" - A People's History of the United States is an important and necessary contribution to a complete and balanced understanding of American history.
Critic Reviews:
"Zinn's work is a vital corrective to triumphalist accounts." (
Publishers Weekly)
Members Reviews:
Amateur hour in the production booth
This has to be the most poorly produced audiobook of all time. With a work of this length - roughly 35 hours - I understand there are several challenges in putting everything together, but here it's like whoever was doing the recording wasn't even trying. Consider. 1) Starting sometime between the 90 minute and 2 hour mark, a number of obvious and jarring cuts, with the narrator dropping out suddenly, and then resuming speech in the middle of a different sentence. This issue seems to settle down after roughly the 5 hour mark. 2) Different audio levels for different recording sessions. After a cut, the narrator returns notably louder or quieter, and with a different level of white noise in the background. 3) At the 5 hour and 46 minute mark, the narrator says "hold on", and then engages in a conversation with the recording engineer, and this was never edited out of the final product. This means the publishers didn't listen to this audiobook even one time for quality control before putting it out in the wild. Shameful, and this is a product of unacceptably low quality. 2 stars for the wealth of content and Jeff Zinn's effort in recording well over 30 hours of speech, but minus 3 stars for a final product that could have been put together better by a motivated middle schooler.
Horrible Editing Ruins Experience
I was looking forward to listening to this audiobook, but as I worked my way through it, the horrible production quality ruined the experience for me.
Jeff Zinn's narration is fantastic, the subject matter interesting, but there are numerous spots where the audio editor chopped off half of a word. On a long car trip, these jarring "jump cuts" were too much to tolerate. Did nobody quality-check this audiobook before releasing it?
Narration SUCKS and poor production!
The narrator sucks! The production was poor. I read most of the comments and was like it can not be that bad. They must have fix some problems because I did not hear a few that were mentioned through out the comments. The narrators voice gets loud then soft many times. Sometimes so soft that I have to crank up the volume and then all of a sudden the guy is screaming. I did find myself laughing at the way he tried to read people's names and when he was trying to read the writings from African Americans. Although the information was very good, it would have helped the book out if they add more chapters to break the information down.