Many things happened during the Progressive Era, and of course everyone is going to have their point of view on them. Zinn went really into detail about every single topic that he talked about, Foner on the other hand sort of skimmed through the topics but still covered them. Zinn loved to talk about the radicals during this time period as where I feel that Foner seemed to talk more from an outsiders view as where Zinn sort of tried to get us to see where the socialist and radicals were coming from. Foner is what I’d like to call a plain history book author. He covers all of the things that happened during the time period but it seems to me as if there isn’t really any personal opinion behind it, or any emotion for that matter. I liked seeing
