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The indispensable Zinn : the essential writings of the "people's historian" / Howard Zinn ; edited by Timothy Patrick McCarthy.

by Zinn, Howard, 1922-2010.

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New York : New Press : Distributed by Perseus Distribution, 2012.

Zinn, Howard, 1922-2010.

Social movements -- United States -- History.

United States -- History.

United States -- Politics and government.

United States -- Social conditions.

9781595586223 (pbk. : alk. paper) :

1595586229 (pbk. : alk. paper)

xxxiv, 379 p. ; 24 cm.

Foreword / by Noam Chomsky -- The People's Historian / by Timothy Patrick McCarthy -- The People's History. "Columbus, the Indians, and Human Progress" from A People's History of the United States -- "The Colorado Coal Strike, 1913-1914" from Three Strikes -- "The New Abolitionists" from SNCC -- "Carter-Reagan-Bush: The Bipartisan Consensus" from A People's History of the United States -- Who Controls the Past Controls the Future -- The Politics of History. "What Is Radical History?" from The Politics of History -- "'My Name Is Freedom' : Albany, Georgia" and "Selma, Alabama" from You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train -- "The Politics of History in the Era of the Cold War: Repression and Resistance" from The Cold War and the University -- "A Yellow Rubber Chicken: Battles at Boston University" from You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train -- How Social Change Happens -- Protest Nation. "Bunker Hill: Beginnings" from Postwar America -- "Patriotism" from A Power Governments Cannot Suppress -- "The Ultimate Power" from Passionate Declarations -- The Future of History -- On War and Peace. "Hiroshima" from The Politics of History -- "Vietnam: The Moral Equation" from The Politics of History -- "Withdrawal," from Vietnam -- "The Case Against War in Iraq" from The Boston Globe -- Resistance and the Role of Artists -- Marx in Soho: A Play on History -- Afterword / by Alice Walker.

When the the author, a historian died in early 2010, millions mourned the loss of one of our foremost intellectual and political guides: a historian, activist, and truth-teller who, in the words of the New York Times's Bob Herbert, "peel[ed] back the rosy veneer of much of American history." Designed to highlight his most important writings, this book includes excerpts from his A People's History of the United States ; his memoir, You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train ; his writings on the civil rights movement; and the full text of his celebrated play.

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