Original sentence: A People's History of the United States is a semi-nonfiction book by American historian and political scientist Howard Zinn, in which he seeks to present American history through the eyes of those rarely heard in mainstream histories.However, Zinn claims in the first chapter of the book (when explaining his method of telling history) that he is not, in fact, simply making out the leaders of the country to be merely villains, but also as victims of their own villainy:
Edited sentence: A People's History of the United States is a nonfiction book by American historian and political scientist Howard Zinn, in which he seeks to present American history through the eyes of those rarely heard in mainstream histories.However, Zinn mentions in the first chapter of the book (when explaining his method of telling history) that he is not, in fact, simply making out the leaders of the country to be merely villains, but also as victims of their own villainy: