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by Howard Zinn (Author), Richard Kreitner (Editor), Frances Fox Piven (Introduction)

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Millions of Americans have read and been galvanized by A People’s History of the United States. But many years before Howard Zinn published that epic saga of exploitation and resistance, he was organizing civil-rights protests and agitating for an end to the Vietnam War—and writing about those efforts in the pages of The Nation. From the Atlanta campus of Spelman College (where Zinn taught in the early 1960s) to North Vietnam (where he facilitated the release of American POWs), Zinn was not only an astute observer of history. As Frances Fox Piven writes in the introduction to Some Truths Are Not Self-Evident, “These Nation essays remind us that for nearly fifty years Zinn himself was deeply involved in the major twentieth-century struggles for social justice in the United States.”
The book also includes later Zinn articles on George W. Bush’s wars—on terror, in Iraq, against the poor—as well as a selection of Nation articles about Zinn, concluding with Eric Foner’s 2010 obituary for the historian who “was not afraid to speak out about the difference between right and wrong.” Nowhere has Zinn’s courage and commitment to speaking out been as evident as in Some Truths Are Not Self Evident: Essays in The Nation on Civil Rights, Vietnam and the “War on Terror.”

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File Size: 2368 KB
Print Length: 143 pages
Publisher: The Nation Co. LP (December 8, 2014)
Publication Date: December 8, 2014
Sold by: Amazon Digital Services LLC
Language: English
ASIN: B00QSAWGEE
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A Great American Historian

ByWalter Stanleyon November 20, 2015

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This is an excellent book for remembering the civil rights struggle and the movement against the war in Viet Nam. I never heard of Howard Zinn until about 1987 or so when I was living in Seoul and a Korean friend asked me my opinion of the book. So I read it and became an avid enthusiast for Zinn’s history. When I later worked as a teacher on Guam the history teacher used Zinn’s text as a supplement and one of the parents tried to get him fired. Some ultra-right wing organization called “Truth in Academia,” or something to that effect, supported the parent and referred to Zinn as addle-brained. I taught chemistry so couldn’t very well fit Zinn into my curriculum, though when I later taught IB Theory of Knowledge I managed to. I enjoyed comparing Zinn’s history with that of Paul Johnson’s MODERN TIMES. I tried to let the students see the two versions and decide for themselves which was more likely to be an honest and truthful portrayal of events. I was not always able to remain neutral, however, since my memory of the Civil Rights Movement and the Vietnam War were still fresh.

I especially enjoyed Zinn’s article on the difference between the left of the 1920s and 30s and that of the 1960s in which he pointed out how dogmatic the earlier movement had been. Unfortunately, the progressive enthusiasm of the 1960s has died out. I suppose this is because the government is no longer drafting citizens to die in pro-colonial wars, and the most heinous aspects of its treatment of minorities has been eliminated. Zinn’s article on the effectiveness of the Constitution, from which the title of this book comes. As he says, most of our guaranteed rights are actually determined by the policeman on the street. And as the brief Occupation Movement showed, the powers that be aren’t above hiring special police to enforce the lack of free speech and assembly. And the press is effectively muffled now in its presentation of the news. We do not see photos of the carnage in Iraq and Afghanistan. Years ago I read in either TIME or NEWSWEEK the comment of a general, “If we allow photographers on battlefields, we’ll never be able to have another war.” Or something to that effect. Absolutely true.

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Zinn At His Most Memorable

ByJames Marshallon March 31, 2015

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This is a memorable collection of essays that continues to engage us in the realities of the world the mainstream media constantly blocks from our line of sight. I found invigorating ideas on every page.

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Howard Zinn wrote so-called revisionist history. It was fact-driven ...

ByRoss Klatteon August 30, 2015

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Howard Zinn wrote so-called revisionist history. It was fact-driven history, not history as America wanted to believe of itself. We need more of it, especially since those in power would now revise revisionist history to suit themselves.

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Five Stars

ByTom Mccarthyon April 18, 2015

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He knows our world better than anyone. You will learn what went on .

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One of the Greats of our time

ByBarry J. Steinon October 22, 2015

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A man for all seasons, he was a light for those in the dark about the truth in our school books on the subject of history. He sure has burst a lot of myth bubbles

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Does not disappoint

Bythegrimeson November 18, 2015

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Zinn's collection of essays does not disappoint. The essays largely talk about the civil rights movement as it happens and I really enjoyed it.

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Everyone should read this book ....

ByMASon January 2, 2017

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We should all read this book. I will read it again. Howard Zinn makes you think about 'things'. Good for us.

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