Different people have a different view of what really happened or their interpretation of the events that happened, and since we each have our own set of biases and knowledge that we bring to our interpretations, no two accounts of the story will be exactly the same. This is easily seen in the excerpts from Kolko and Painter. Painter is interested in people, how they shaped America, what they like, what they don't like, what they wanted, and that comes through in his work. She even tells us in the preface that this is the focus of her work: “It is primarily a hybrid political and labor history, but it also pays attention to social changes…” (Painter, xiii). Painter wasn't lying, all of chapter 6 focuses on people. It talks about their social, economic and political problems/ideas/aspirations in the beginning, and when something big happens, like workers' strikes and trusts. With the strikes, she tells us why they went on strike and the struggles they faced (mainly the employers and the government), and why they disliked the trusts and their efforts to suppress the corruption and injustices caused by large companies.