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viii, 214 pages ; 24 cm |
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Includes index. |
| Summary |
Acclaimed historian Howard Zinn has been at the center of the most important historical moments of the last thirty years, during which he has been admired both as a writer and as an important political and moral voice. Author of the epic A People's History of the United States, Zinn here applies his historian's skills to the remarkable life he himself has led. In this inspiring, personal book - which works both as memoir and as popular history of an era - Zinn brings to life more than thirty years of American social history by telling the stories behind a politically engaged life. Zinn grew up in the immigrant slums of Brooklyn and flew as a bombardier in World War II, and he writes about the ways both experiences helped shape a radical impulse, an opposition to war, and a passion for history. He writes about his first teaching job at Spelman College, where he worked with young civil rights activists including Alice Walker and Marian Wright Edelman. He paints vivid portraits of key moments and people throughout the South in the early 1960s, where he was a chronicler and active ally of the civil rights movement. He talks about his days as a leading antiwar protester, going to Vietnam with Daniel Berrigan and testifying in his friend Daniel Ellsberg's Pentagon Papers trial. He recalls imprisonments for civil disobedience, fights for open debate in universities, his love of teaching. |
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Going south : Spelman College -- "Young ladies who can picket" -- "A president is like a gardener" -- "My name is freedom" : Albany, Georgia -- Selma, Alabama -- "I'll be here" : Mississippi -- A veteran against the war -- "Sometimes to be silent is to lie" : Vietnam -- The last teach-in -- "Our apologies, good friends, for the fracture of good order" -- In jail : "The world is topsy-turvy" -- In court : "The heart of the matter" -- Growing-up class conscious -- A yellow rubber chicken : battles at Boston University -- The possibility of hope. |
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Zinn, Howard, 1922-2010.
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Zinn, Howard, 1922-2010 (OCoLC)fst01734796
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Historians -- United States -- Biography.
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United States -- History -- 1945- -- Philosophy.
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Historians. (OCoLC)fst00957686
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Philosophy. (OCoLC)fst01060777
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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Since 1945
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Autobiographies. (OCoLC)fst01919894
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History (OCoLC)fst01411628
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Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
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Autobiographies.
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| ISBN |
0807070580 |
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9780807070581 |
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0807070599 (pbk.) |
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9780807070598 (pbk.) |
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