Adam Wasserman
Adam Wasserman is a native resident of Sarasota, Florida. Inspired by the People's History series and other critical historical texts, he has determined to base his writing career on revisionist history, social change, and global issues afflicting the world today.
After reading and studying numerous People's History renditions, Adam decided to derive a comprehensive, revisionist history of where he was born and raised. People's History is based on largely ignored primary sources and narratives to weave together a picture of how common people experienced and influenced history, rather than leaders or governments.
Wasserman applied this revolutionary concept of history to his home state of Florida, releasing A People's History of Florida 1513-1876: How Africans, Seminoles, Women, and Lower Class Whites Shaped the Sunshine State. A People's History of Florida continues the People's History approach, narrate history from below through mostly ignored primary sources and narratives. Rather than synthesizing the sources and composing a predigested narrative, Wasserman combines his own interpretations with large block quotes, allowing the voices of marginalized people to speak for themelseves.
While focusing primarily on revisionist history, social issues, and contemporary politics, Wasserman's planned catalogue could be called nothing but diverse. In 2010, he released a book on economic history, Two Sides to the Coin: A History of Gold, which narrates the history of gold from antiquity to the present-day through a Keynesian perspective. Two Sides to the Coin focuses on the social and economic history of gold, as well as its implications for today's contemporary global economic depression. He has several works set for the future, including the sequel A People's History of Florida, 1877 to 1923.
Latest Articles
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Understanding the Global Famine
The fundamental cause of the global famine has been the restructuring of agricultural economies to shift focus from human needs to the demands of Western consumers.
Nov 18, 2008
- Adam Wasserman
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Gentrification and the Economic Crisis
The housing crisis has resulted in the greatest loss of wealth for people of color in modern U.S. history, unparalleled to anything else in recent memory.
Nov 17, 2008
- Adam Wasserman
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