A Different Mirror

Ronald Takaki's beloved revisionist history of America, praised by Howard Zinn as ""a bold and refreshing new approach to our national history,"" now featuring a foreword from Clint Smith, author of the award-winning #1 bestseller How the Word Is Passed. Ronald Takaki's ""brilliant revisionist history of America"" (Publishers Weekly) is a landmark work of American history retells American history from the bottom up, through the lives of many minorities Native Americans, African Americans, Jewish Americans, Irish Americans, Asian Americans, Latino Americans, and others who helped create this country's mighty economy and rich mosaic culture. A Different Mirror brilliantly illuminates our country's defining strengths as it reveals America as a nation peopled by the world.