Howard Zinn, Some Truths Are Not Self-Evident

Howard Zinn, Some Truths Are Not Self-Evident

Millions of Americans have read and been galvanized by A Peopleâ€™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 Warâ€”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, â€œThese 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.â€
The book also includes later Zinn articles on George W. Bushâ€™s warsâ€”on terror, in Iraq, against the poorâ€”as well as a selection of Nation articles about Zinn, concluding with Eric Fonerâ€™s 2010 obituary for the historian who â€œwas not afraid to speak out about the difference between right and wrong.â€ Nowhere has Zinnâ€™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 â€œWar on Terror.â€
Country USA
Manufacturer The Nation Co. LP
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2014-12-08
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	The Nation Co. LP
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2014-12-08
Format	Kindle eBook

Howard Zinn, Some Truths Are Not Self-Evident

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