Instruct: Classify the given review as either positive or negative.
Query: Best of its kind

This is an exciting, readable history of the United States (and what preceded it). What has impressed me most about it is that a lot of people who never liked "history" have been completely engrossed in this book. It's a good read. It grabs and holds your attention. It tells you things you never knew. It is frankly biased, but the author doesn't try to conceal that. I found it uplifting. Zinn is unsparing about the injustice and atrocity in our country's history, but that's not all he cares about. He brings to light some instances of courage and inspiration that conventional histories leave out.Many readers are apparently tempted to read the book with a narrow purpose in mind: to uncover "leftist bias" - to get a subversive thrill - to rationalize their oppressed status - to feel self-righteous. The book allows all of these things, but somehow there's more to it than that. This history is not just a collection of dates, names and facts. It really tells the story.