Howard Zinn Speaks: Collected Speeches, 1963-2009

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Haymarket Books, 2012 - 311 sider

Howard Zinn has illuminated our history like no other US historian. This collection of his speeches on protest movements, racism, war, and US history, many never before published, covers more than four decades of his active engagement with the audiences he inspired with his humor, insight, and clarity.

"Reading Howard's spoken words, I feel that I am almost hearing his voice again--his stunning pitch-perfect ability to capture the moment and the concerns and needs of the audience, whoever they may be, always enlightening, often stirring, an amalgam of insight, critical history, wit, blended with charm and appeal."
--NOAM CHOMSKY

"With ferocious moral clarity and mischievous humor, Howard turned routine antiwar rallies into profound explorations of state violence and staid academic conferences into revival meetings for social change. Collected here for the first time, Howard's speeches--spanning an extraordinary life of passion and principle--come to us at the moment when we need them most: just as a global network of popular uprisings searches for what comes next. We could ask for no wiser a guide than Howard Zinn."
--NAOMI KLEIN

"To hear Howard] speak was like listening to music that you loved--lyrical, uplifting, honest. . . . I know he would love it for each of you to find your voice and to be heard. This book will provide you with some inspiration."
--MICHAEL MOORE

"To read this book is to hear Howard Zinn speak again, inspiring us for the struggles from below that are our only hope for any future at all."
--FRANCES FOX PIVEN

Howard Zinn wrote the classic A People's History of the United States. The book, which has sold more than two million copies, has been featured in the film Good Will Hunting, and has appeared multiple times on The New York Times best-seller list.


Anthony Arnove wrote, directed, and produced The People Speak with Howard Zinn, Chris Moore, Josh Brolin, and Matt Damon, and co-edited, with Howard Zinn, Voices of a People's History of the United States.


 

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Southern Influence in National Politics
1
Speech against the Vietnam War on Boston Common
15
Political Theory and Human Life
21
Collaboration and Resistance
41
Second Thoughts on the First Amendment
59
The Legacy of Columbus
77
A Peoples History of the United States
91
Abolish the Death Penalty
115
Just War
185
Overcoming Obstacles
207
Civil Disobedience in the TwentyFirst Century
225
The State of the Union
241
Standing Up for Justice in the Age of Obama
255
Talk on Democracy and Citizenship in Greece
265
Three Holy Wars
283
Acknowledgments
301

The Case of Sacco and Vanzetti
121
Emma Goldman Anarchism and War Resistance
133
Confronting Government Lies
145
History Matters
161
The Myth of American Exceptionalism
175
Index
303
Books by Howard Zinn
310
About Howard Zinn
312
About Anthony Arnove
314
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A committed radical historian and activist, Howard Zinn approaches the study of the past from the point of view of those whom he feels have been exploited by the powerful. Zinn was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1922. After working in local shipyards during his teens, he joined the U.S. Army Air Force, where he saw combat as a bombardier in World War II. He received a Ph.D. in history from Columbia University in 1958 and was a postdoctoral fellow in East Asian studies at Harvard University. While teaching at Spelman College in Atlanta, Georgia, Zinn joined the civil rights movement and wrote The Southern Mystique (1964) and SNCC: The New Abolitionists (1964). He also became an outspoken critic of the Vietnam War, writing Vietnam: The Logic of Withdrawal (1967) and visiting Hanoi to receive the first American prisoners released by the North Vietnamese. Zinn's best-known and most-praised work, as well as his most controversial, is A People's History of the United States (1980). It explores American history under the thesis that most historians have favored those in power, leaving another story untold. Zinn discusses such topics as Native American views of Columbus and the socialist and anarchist opposition to World War I in examining his theory that historical change is most often due to "mass movements of ordinary people." Zinn's other books include You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times (1995) and Artists in Times of War (2004). He has also written the plays Emma (1976), Daughter of Venus (1985), and Marx in Soho (1999).

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