Also that it's somehow not "real" history is strange to me. History is always a construction, a narrative on a series of events told from a given perspective. That Zinn is talking about the American experiment from an alternative perspective than that of its ruling class doesn't make it less real.
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Zinns uses accopunts of events to frame an a argument he has made in advance. He is advancing a "perspective." The problem is it runs into disconfirming facts.
But then, you don't believe in facts, no?
Zinns is a Marxist. His text is Marxist propaganda — in the technical sense.
Cheers.