Title: A People's History of American Empire

Author: Howard Zinn

Publisher: Constable & Robinson

Price: £12.99

Bookshop: Amazon

Spartacus Website: USA History

Category: Wild West

Since its landmark publication in 1980, the original history has sold more than 1.7 million copies. More than a successful book, it triggered a revolution in the way history is told, displacing the official versions with their emphasis on great men in high places to chronicle events as they were lived, from the bottom up.Historians Howard Zinn and Paul Buhle and cartoonist Mike Konopacki have collaborated to retell, in vibrant graphic form, a most immediate and relevant chapter of A People's History of American Empire: the story of America's ever-growing role on the world stage. Narrated by Zinn, this version opens with the events of 9/11 and then tracks back to explore the cycles of US expansionism from Wounded Knee to Iraq, while taking in World War I, Central America, Vietnam, and the Iranian revolution. The book also follows the story of Zinn, the son of poor Jewish immigrants, from his childhood in the Brooklyn slums to his role as one of America's leading historians. Shifting from world-shattering events to one family's small revolutions, this is a classic ground-level history of America in a dazzling new form.

Title: Buffalo Bill's Wild West in Scotland

Author: Tom F. Cunningham

Publisher: Black & White Publishing

Price: £18.99

Bookshop: Amazon

Spartacus Website: Buffalo Bill

Category: Wild West

Most people are conscious, at least in outline, of Buffalo Bill Cody's legendary exploits as an army scout and Indian fighter during the formative years of his career.However, the no less astonishing story of how the frontiersman-turned-showman later attended a Glasgow Cup tie between Rangers and Queen's Park, provoked an uproar in Edinburgh's Court of Session, set a Dundee goods yard ablaze, nearly caused an Arbroath hotelier to lose his licence, threw the Aberdeenshire fishing industry into chaos, induced a power cut in Perth and was next presented with a medal by a house painter from Dumfries must now be told.The time has come to inform the wider public that Annie 'Get Your Gun' Oakley learned to ride a bike in Glasgow.And let us not forget that time in 1904 when the sudden appearance of a feathered band of Sioux nearly frightened the life out of the good people of Buchanhaven.Buffalo Bill's extraordinary capacity to generate myths was not limited to the American side of the Atlantic or even to his own lifetime. This definitive account of Buffalo Bill's Scottish adventures bravely undertakes to sift out the history from a generous and enduring legacy of fiction.

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