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Howard Zinn on History
Howard Zinn
Seven Stories Press, 2000
An Alternative Perspective of History
Howard Zinn's approach to history comes directly from his own life experience. He saw the baby boom part of the twentieth century history evolve before his eyes with major events, such as the Civil Rights Movement and the further activism that occurred thereafter, and the effects of the war on ...
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Howard Zinn on Democratic Education (Series in Critical Narrative)
Howard Zinn, Donaldo Macedo
Paradigm Publishers, 2008
Perhaps no other historian has had a more profound and revolutionary impact on American education than Howard Zinn. This is the first book devoted to his views on education and its role in a democratic society. Howard Zinn on Democratic Education describes what is missing from school textbooks and in classrooms - and how we move beyond these deficiencies to improve student education. ...
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The Twentieth Century: A People's History
Howard Zinn
Harper Perennial, 2003
Quite a Read! An Important Minority Report on the History of the U.S.
+ The truth can hurt and free you..
+ American history from an interesting point of view...
+ Zinn's Opus
+ Too much of a good thing
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Voices of A People's History of the United States
Seven Stories Press, 2004
A strong intellectual perturbation
+ Voice of A People's History of the United States
+ Howard Zinn's quest
+ You'll learn a few things
+ Incredible Resource
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Vietnam: The Logic of Withdrawal
Howard Zinn
South End Press, 2002
A 1967 book that is eerily relevant today
The Vietnamese puppets of the French running the South knew that Ho Chi Minh would win any free and fair election so they would repeatedly refuse North Vietnamese requests to hold the promised elections that were supposed to reunify the country as called for in the 1954 Geneva accords. Zinn quotes ...
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The Zinn Reader: Writings on Disobedience and Democracy
Howard Zinn
Seven Stories Press, 2003
A wonderful anthology of our greatest historian.
+ Wake up and smell the truth.
+ And It Makes Me Wonder...
+ wonderful, and moving
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Stories Hollywood Never Tells
Howard Zinn
Alternative Tentacle, 2001
Interesting...
HOWARD ZINN- Stories Hollywood Never Tells (Alternative Tentacles) Recorded April 17, 1999. As the cd's title indicates, Howard reveals a bunch of true life events and people that he would like to see made into main stream movies instead of the "established" teachings of history. Mr. Zinn doesn't ...
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Howard Zinn: A Radical American Vision
Davis D. Joyce
Prometheus Books, 2003
Howard Zinn By Denis Mueller
+ Howard Zinn: A Radical American Vision
+ Excellent Intellectual Biography
+ The Gift That Keeps On Giving
+ Proud to be a liberal and an intellectual
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Passionate Declarations: Essays on War and Justice
Howard Zinn
Harper Perennial, 2003
Keeping democracy alive
+ Put this book at the top of your "to read" pile immediately.
+ Good read
"Passionate Declarations" by Howard Zinn is an outstanding collection of essays that were originally published in 1990. The new edition from 2003 features a Preface that was written just prior to the U.S. invasion of Iraq. In my view, Dr. Zinn's essays are helpful in understanding many of the ...
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Howard Zinn - You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train
Matt Damon, Howard Zinn
FIRST RUN FEATURES, 2005
Smart, Courageous, and Inspiring
+ Truly one of our nation's greatest patriots
+ The Original "Question Authority" Man
+ A revolution in kindness.
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Artists in a Time of War
Howard Zinn
Alternative Tentacle, 2002
Fighting with the Vampir ...
+ Great Lecture - in one CD!
+ Excellent analysis post-9/11
Howard Zinn (*1922), American civil rights campaigner like Michael Moore, Noam Chomsky or Arundhati Roy (he got the Lannan price like her), as a Professor 1963 dismissed because of his dedicated fight against the Vietnam war, - he has not yet stopped today to write books and to give speeches.
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You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times
Howard Zinn
Beacon Press, 2002
Great Book
+ "Being hopeful in bad times..." *
+ A Different Kind of Zinn, But a Must Read!
+ Full of experiences we all need to be aware of
+ School Paper Gone Right
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Howard Zinn on War
Howard Zinn
Seven Stories Press, 2000
Cases Against the Pitiful Ways of War
+ Zinn on war
+ Interesting Essay By A Scholar An Activist
+ A Superb Pacifist Pamphlet.
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Emma
Howard Zinn
South End Press, 2002
"We have to have a little beauty in our lives, even in the midst of the struggle." *
+ Accurate and Needed but...
In all honesty, I've avoided reading Zinn's "Emma" (and his "Marx in Soho") for years because my experience with literary pieces written by scholars is that they're usually didactic and lifeless. This was stupid on my part. After all, the eloquence of Zinn's You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train ...
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Marx in Soho : A Play on History
Howard Zinn
South End Press, 1999
Sparks for Marx
+ "Pretend you have boils..."
+ Marx in Soho is entertaining and informative
I get so tired of these knee-jerk, hackneyed, imbecilic responses to any work dealing with the teachings and philosophy of Karl Marx. Here is my review of Zinn's Marx in Soho: If you're an open minded progressive, pick it up and read it. If you're a right wing neo-fascist nut, don't pick it up ...
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