| Description |
xxxiv, 379 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Foreword: Remembering Howard Zinn / by Noam Chomsky -- Introduction: The People's Historian / by Timothy Patrick McCarthy -- Part 1. The People's History -- "Columbus, the Indians, and Human Progress" from A People's History of the United States -- "The Colorado Coal Strike, 1913-1914" from Three Strikes -- "The New Abolitionists" and "Out of the Sit-Ins" from SNCC : The New Abolitionists -- "Carter-Reagan-Bush : The Bipartisan Consensus" from A People's History of the United States -- Interlude: Who Controls the Past Controls the Future -- Part 2. The Politics of History -- "What Is Radical History?" from The Politics of History -- "'My Name Is Freedom' : Albany, Georgia" and "Selma, Alabama" from You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train -- "The Politics of History in the Era of the Cold War : Repression and Resistance" from The Cold War and the University -- "A Yellow Rubber Chicken : Battles at Boston University" from You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train -- Interlude: How Social Change Happens -- Part 3. Protest Nation -- "Bunker Hill : Beginnings" from Postwar America -- "Patriotism" from A Power Governments Cannot Suppress -- "Law and Justice" from Passionate Declarations -- "The Ultimate Power" from Passionate Declarations -- Interlude: The Future of History -- Part 4. On War and Peace -- "Hiroshima and Royan" from The Politics of History -- "Vietnam : The Moral Equation" from The Politics of History -- "A Matter of Perspective," "Withdrawal," and "A Speech for LBJ" from Vietnam -- "The Case Against War in Iraq" from The Zinn Reader -- Interlude: Resistance and the Role of Artists -- Part 5. Marx in Soho : A Play on History -- Afterword / by Alice Walker. |
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United States -- History.
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United States -- Politics and government.
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United States -- Social conditions.
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Social movements -- History.
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Zinn, Howard, 1922-2010.
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| Added Author |
McCarthy, Timothy Patrick.
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| ISBN |
9781595586223 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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1595586229 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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