Howard Zinn

With his with and unique ability to illuminate history from below, Howard Zinn dramatizes the life of a remarkable woman. Emma Goldman, the anarchist, feminist and free spirit, was exiled from the United States because of her outspoken views. She seemed tireless as she travelled, discussing birth control (A woman should decide for herself'), the falsity of marriage as an institution ('Nothing to do with love'), patriotism ('the last refuge of a scoundrel') and more. This book will be of interest to feminists, historians and revolutionaries alike.'

The post-World War II boom in America brought about massive changes in society and culture, not just in the U. S. but around the world. The U. S. had solidified itself as the strongest nation of the world. However, tensions with the Soviet Union intensified into the Cold War leading to a change in politics and social conventions. In Postwar America, Howard Zinn offers an underground, lesser-known view on these spirited years in history. By critically examining America's militarism abroad as well as racism, Zinn raises challenging questions about this era.

Marx is back! The premise of this witty and insightful play on history' is that Karl Marx has agitated with the authorities of the afterlife for a chance to clear his name. Through a bureaucratic error, Marx is sent to Soho in New York - rather than his old stomping ground in London - to make his case. Marx in Soho is a brilliant introduction to Marx's life, his analysis of society and his passion for radical change. Zinn also shows how Marx's ideas are relevant in today's world.'

In Disobedience and Democracy, the inimitable leftist thinker Howard Zinn lays out a clear and dynamic case for civil disobedience and protest as legitimate vehicles for social change. Zinn challenges the dominant arguments against forms of protest that challenge the status quo. He solidifies his argument, exploring the politics of direct action, nonviolent civil disobedience and strikes, while also offering lessons for protestors of the present and future generations. This book is a passionate, humanist argument for group-led change.

The South has long been surrounded in mystique. In this powerful volume, drawing on Zinn's own experiences teaching in the South and working within the Southern civil rights movement, Zinn challenges the stereotypes surrounding the South, race relations, and how change happens in history. With a new introduction from the author.

The book explores the reality of justice, which has always stood in contrast to the rhetoric about equal rights under the law. With sections on the police, the courts, prisons, housing, work, health, schools, and popular struggle, Justice in Everyday Life features classic essays by a diverse group of authors, including Jonathan Kozol.

Howard Zinn has illuminated American history and politics like none other. He wrote on the Civil Rights and anti-war movements and was one of America's best known and most beloved - or most hated - activists for both causes. In this timely reprint of Failure to Quit, Howard Zinn discusses a wide range of historical and political topics, from the role of the Supreme Court in US history to the nature of higher education today. Zinn's most accessible, most pertinent and most popular essays have been collected in a celebration of this great activist's legacy.

As the first book to call for an immediate withdrawal from Vietnam, Howard Zinn's Vietnam includes a powerful speech which he believed President Lyndon Johnson should have delivered to lay out the case for ending the war. Of the many books that challenged the Vietnam War, Howard Zinn's Vietnam stands out as one of the greatest - and indeed the most influential. The writings in this book helped spark a national debate on the war; few aside from Zinn could reach so many with such passion and such conciseness.

Howard Zinn's views on social movements, freedom, history, democracy, and our own human potential are educational and transformative. In few places is his voice more clear and accessible than in the dozens of articles he penned for The Progressive magazine from 1980 to 2009, offered together here in book form for the first time. Whether encouraging people to organize, critiquing the government, or speaking on behalf of working people who struggle to survive in an economy rigged to benefit the rich and powerful, Zinn's historical clarity, unflappable optimism, and unshakable questions reverberate throughout The Historic Unfulfilled Promise: "Have our political leaders gone mad?" "What kind of country do we want to live in?" "Has the will of the people been followed?" The Historic Unfulfilled Promise is a genuine work of conscience, rich in ideas, charged with energy; an invaluable introduction for the uninitiated and a must-have for Zinn's fans. "Passionate, iconoclastic, and wrly humorous ...[Zinn] sometimes proves astounding in his almost clairvoyant analysis." --Publisher's Weekly Starred Review "A sharp and insightful collection from one of the country's most visible historians and critics."--Booklist "A useful introduction to one of America's great scholar-activists."--Kirkus Reviews "Howard Zinn's life and work are an unforgettable model, sure to leave a permanent stamp on how history is understood and how a decent and honorable life should be lived."--Noam Chomsky "Proudly, unabashedly radical ... Mr. Zinn delighted in debating ideological foes, not the least his own college president, and in lancing what he considered platitudes, not the least that American history was a heroic march toward democracy."--New York Times "For Howard, democracy was one big public fight and everyone should plunge into it. That's the only way, he said, for everyday folks to get justic--by fighting for it."--Bill Moyers

Fiorello LaGuardia is known best as the tempestuous mayor of New York City in the days when Franklin Delano Roosevelt sat in the White House. There had been, however, an earlier time, which matched his mayoralty years in sheer drama and perhaps surpassed them in lasting achievement-LaGuardia's years in Congress. He served in the House of Representative almost continuously from 1917 to 1933, representing two ethnically diverse congressional districts: the Fourteenth (Greenwich Village), from 1917 to 1919, and the Twentieth (East Harlem), from 1923 to 1933. Although barred from important committee posts because of his political independence and thus denied from playing a direct role in lawmaking, he was a tireless and vocal champion of Progressive causes, from allowing more immigration and removing U. S. troops from Nicaragua to speaking up for the rights and livelihoods of striking miners, impoverished farmers, oppressed minorities, and struggling families. A goad to the era's plutocrats and their enablers in government, LaGuardia fought for progressive income taxes, greater government oversight of Wall Street, and national employment insurance for workers idled by the Great Depression. In this book, first published by Cornell University Press in 1959, Howard Zinn establishes LaGuardia's tenure in Congress as a vital link between the Progressive and New Deal eras, offering a lively and informative account of his many legislative battles, his political philosophy, and the distinctly urban (specifically, New York City) sensibilities he brought to the Progressive movement.

""Laguardia In Congress"" is a non-fiction book written by Howard Zinn. It tells the story of Fiorello LaGuardia, a former congressman and mayor of New York City. The book explores LaGuardia's political career and his impact on American politics during the early 20th century. LaGuardia was known for his progressive views and his commitment to social justice, including his efforts to improve the lives of working-class Americans, immigrants, and minorities. The book also delves into LaGuardia's personal life, including his upbringing and his relationships with his family and colleagues. Zinn's writing style is engaging and informative, making this book an excellent choice for anyone interested in American history, politics, or social justice issues. Overall, ""Laguardia In Congress"" offers a fascinating look at one of America's most influential political figures and his legacy. This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

Drawn from his New York Times bestseller A People's History of the United States, Howard Zinn's The Other Civil War offers the historian and activist's view of the social and civil background of the American Civil War--a view that is rarely provided in standard historical texts. This set of essays recounts the history of American labor, free and not free, in the years leading up to and during the Civil War. Zinn offers an alternative yet necessary account of the terrible nation-defining epoch.

As a World War II combat soldier, Howard Zinn took part in the aerial bombing of Royan, France. Two decades later, he was invited to visit Hiroshima and meet survivors of the atomic attack. In this short and powerful book, Zinn offers his deep personal reflections and political analysis of these events, their consequences, and the profound influence they had in transforming him from an order-taking combat soldier to one of our greatest anti-authoritarian, antiwar historians. This book was finalized just prior to Zinn's passing in January 2010, and is published on the sixty-fifth anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima. Simultaneous publication this August in the U. S. and Japan commemorates the 65th anniversary of the USA's two atomic bombings of Japan by calling for the abolition of all nuclear weapons and an end to war as an acceptable solution to human conflict. "Zinn writes with an enthusiasm rarely encountered in the leaden prose of academic history..."--New York Times Book Review "This collection of essays is a great book for anybody who wants to be better informed about history, regardless of their political point of view." --O, The Oprah Magazine "Zinn collects here almost three dozen brief, passionate essays... Readers seeking to break out of their ideological comfort zones will find much to ponder here."--Publishers Weekly "A bomb is highly impersonal. The dropper can kill hundreds, and never see any of them. The Bomb is the memoir of Howard Zinn, a bomber in World War II who dropped bombs along the French countryside while campaigning against Germany. After learning of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Zinn now speaks out against the use of bombs and what it can do to warfare. Thoughtful and full of stories of an old soldier who regrets what he has done, The Bomb is a fine posthumous release that shares much of the lost wisdom of World War II."--James A. Cox, The Midwest Book Review "Throughout his academic career, his popular writings and work as an activist Zinn consistently, and often successfully, threw a wrench in the works of the US war machine. He may be gone, but through his powerful and passionate body of work--of which The Bomb is an excellent introduction--thousands of others will be educated and inspired to work for a more humane and peaceful world." --Ian Sinclair, Morning Star "The path that Howard Zinn walked--from bombardier to activist--gives hope that each of us can move from clinical detachment to ardent commitment, from violence to nonviolence."--Frida Berrigan, WIN Magazine Howard Zinn (1922 --2010) was raised in a working-class family in Brooklyn, and flew bombing missions for the United States in World War II, an experience he now points to in shaping his opposition to war. Under the GI Bill he went to college and received his Ph. D. from Columbia University. In 1956, he became a professor at Spelman College in Atlanta, a school for black women, where he soon became involved in the civil rights movement, which he participated in as an adviser to the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and chronicled, in his book SNCC: The New Abolitionists. Zinn collaborated with historian Staughton Lynd and mentored a young student named Alice Walker. When he was fired in 1963 for insubordination related to his protest work, he moved to Boston University, where he became a leading critic of the Vietnam War. In his liftetime, Zinn received the Thomas Merton Award, the Eugene V. Debs Award, the Upton Sinclair Award, and the Lannan Literary Award. He is perhaps best known for A People's History of the United States. CityLights Booksellers and Publishers previously published his essay collection A Power Governments Cannot Suppress.

Man kan inte vara neutral på ett tåg i rörelse. Det rådet gav Howard­ Zinn alltid sina elever - den som inte engagerar sig ger sitt stöd åt den färdriktning samhället har. Howard Zinn (1922-2010) - amerikansk historiker, ­lärare och författare till storsäljaren Det amerikanska folkets historia­ - hade förmånen att inifrån få uppleva framväxten av två av 1900-talets mest betydelsefulla massrörelser i USA, ­medborgarrättsrörelsen och ­Vietnamrörelsen. Det gav honom en smittande ­optimistisk syn på möjligheterna till radikal politisk förändring. Även dessa gigantiska rörelser, påminner oss Zinn, startade med en handfull individers till synes meningslösa aktioner. I sina memoarer Man kan inte vara neutral på ett tåg i rörelse berättar­ Howard Zinn om dessa historiska ­händelser som kom att förändra ett helt samhällsklimat. Hans perspektiv skiljer sig från det som vanligen präglar historieskrivningen om det ­radikala sextio- och sjuttiotalet. Den berättelse som hos Zinn står i centrum är en som vi idag har glömt: hur den ­folkliga mobiliseringens makt kan övervinna nästan vilket motstånd som helst. "Jag fick just veta att min vän ­Howard dött idag. Tidigare på ­morgonen hade jag intervjuats av Boston Phoenix med anledning av en kommande dokumentärfilm om mig där Zinn är flitigt förekommande. Intervjuaren frågade mig vilka mina egna hjältar var och jag tvekade inte att säga: först och främst Howard Zinn. För bara några veckor sedan, efter att ha sett filmen den 7 december, vaknade jag på morgonen efteråt och tänkte att jag aldrig har berättat för honom hur mycket han betytt för mig. För en gång skull reagerade jag på den tanken på ett relevant sätt. Jag sände honom ett ­e-mail i vilket jag bland annat skrev, vad jag ofta berättat för andra om honom: Att han enligt mig var den finaste människan jag träffat. Det bästa exemplet på vad en människa kan vara och kan göra med sitt liv." Daniel Ellsberg, den 27 januari 2010

Fiorello LaGuardia is known best as the tempestuous mayor of New York City in the days when Franklin Delano Roosevelt sat in the White House. There had been, however, an earlier time, which matched his mayoralty years in sheer drama and perhaps surpassed them in lasting achievement—LaGuardia's years in Congress. He served in the House of Representative almost continuously from 1917 to 1933, representing two ethnically diverse congressional districts: the Fourteenth (Greenwich Village), from 1917 to 1919, and the Twentieth (East Harlem), from 1923 to 1933. Although barred from important committee posts because of his political independence and thus denied from playing a direct role in lawmaking, he was a tireless and vocal champion of Progressive causes, from allowing more immigration and removing U. S. troops from Nicaragua to speaking up for the rights and livelihoods of striking miners, impoverished farmers, oppressed minorities, and struggling families. A goad to the era's plutocrats and their enablers in government, LaGuardia fought for progressive income taxes, greater government oversight of Wall Street, and national employment insurance for workers idled by the Great Depression. In this book, first published by Cornell University Press in 1959, Howard Zinn establishes LaGuardia's tenure in Congress as a vital link between the Progressive and New Deal eras, offering a lively and informative account of his many legislative battles, his political philosophy, and the distinctly urban (specifically, New York City) sensibilities he brought to the Progressive movement.

Son of famous sociologists Helen and Robert Lynd, Staughton Lynd was one of the most visible figures of the New Left, a social movement during the 1960s that emphasized participatory democracy. His tireless campaign for social justice prompted his former Spelman College student, Alice Walker, to remember him as "her courageous white teacher" who represented "activism at its most contagious because it was always linked to celebration and joy." In this first full-length study of Lynd's activist career, author Carl Mirra charts the development of the New Left and traces Lynd's journey into the southern civil rights and anti–Vietnam War movements during the 1960s. He details Lynd's service as a coordinator of the Mississippi Freedom Schools, his famous and controversial peace mission to Hanoi with Tom Hayden, his turbulent academic career, and the legendary attempt by the Radical Historians' Caucus within the American Historical Association to elect him AHA president. The book concludes with Lynd's move in the 1970s to Niles, Ohio, where he assisted in the struggle to keep the steel mills open and where he works as a labor lawyer today. The Admirable Radical is an important contribution to the study of social history and will interest both social and intellectual historians.

World-renowned historian Howard Zinn has turned to drama to explore the legacy of Karl Marx and Emma Goldman and to delve into the intricacies of political and social conscience perhaps more deeply than traditional history permits. "Three Plays" brings together all this work, including the previously unpublished "Daughter of Venus," along with a new introductory essay on political theater, and prefaces to each of the plays.

Why Howard Zinn has become one of the most important and influential American historians is perhaps nowhere more evident than in this new book. Few social critics have been as inspiring as the ever-hopeful Zinn and, unlike many historians, Zinn turns historical details toward deeper observations on the universal truths and struggles of humankind. His remarkable wisdom and insight can be found in his earliest writings through his latest essays, speeches, and plays. Uncommon Sense brings together his most poignant and profound quotations from decades of writing and speaking. The book reveals the philosophical side of Howard Zinn and a consistency of vision over 50 years on topics ranging from government to race, history, law, civil disobedience, and activism. Offering quotations of universal and timeless quality, the book shows why history will regard this historian as a political and moral philosopher in the company of Paine, Jefferson, Frederick Douglass, and Martin Luther King Jr.

Adapted from the critically acclaimed chronicle of U. S. history, a study of American expansionism around the world is told from a grassroots perspective and provides an analysis of important events from Wounded Knee to Iraq, in a volume created in the format of a graphic novel. Simultaneous. 100,000 first printing.