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American Protest Literature (The John Harvard Library)

4 reviews

Belknap Press, 2008

Brilliant!
This book is compelling proof that dissent is patriotic. Zoe Trodd traces the literature that has worked for change and as far as I know this is the first book to define this genre (American Protest Literature). Trodd's discussion of what makes a text "protest literature" sets the standard and along the way she shows how the most unlikely sources can be considered literature. She also tells a ...

Soldiers in Revolt: GI Resistance During the Vietnam War

5 reviews
David Cortright

Haymarket Books, 2005

Behind the Walls
Timely new edition of pioneering 1975 study of GI resistance during the Vietnam war. Most younger Americans know about the anti-war movement from first-hand film accounts of the massive marches and sit-ins. Yet far fewer know the extent of resistance within the armed forces themselves. There are no video tapes of widespread clashes between MP's and GI protesters during war's peak period. Nor is ...

Prayer for the Morning Headlines: On the Sanctity of Life and Death

3 reviews
Daniel Berrigan

Apprentice House, 2007

Publisher Shares Advance Praise for "Prayer"
"For me Father Berrigan is Jesus as a poet. If this be heresy, make the most of it." -Kurt Vonnegut "Dan Berrigan is a national treasure, and he has added another powerful, poignant book to his towering life's work. Adrianna Amari's photographs offer searching complements to Berrigan's poems. Read and reflect on this book, and share it with others." -Amy Goodman ...

Targeted: Homeland Security and the Business of Immigration

4 reviews
Deepa Fernandes

Seven Stories Press, 2007

Authoritarian madness in the "land of the free"
Deepa Fernandes has done this country a huge favor by exposing the business interests, and the nefarious ideology behind the crack-down on immigrants. Some prefer to call them "illegals," but to many, these undocumented people are family, friends, fellow Christians, essential workers, etc. Now these economic refugees of the catastrophe of neoliberal economics are becoming objects of revenue in ...

Voices of A People's History of the United States

14 reviews
Howard Zinn, Anthony Arnove

Seven Stories Press, 2008

A strong intellectual perturbation
History is sometimes written with the goal of documenting the attitudes or opinions of a particular class of people, such as the intellectuals, the politicians, the scientists, or the warriors. Each of these groups has made important contributions to human accomplishment, which should not be forgotten or discarded under the guise of some egalitarian or multicultural reading of history. But when ...

The Politics of History

5 reviews
Howard Zinn

Beacon Press, 1971

Essays by activist historian
Zinn makes perhaps the best points in this book early on, in his first essay "Knowledge as a Form of Power." Here he quite correctly notes that academia in America (and this is equally valid elsewhere in the world) tends to produce mountains of "inconsequential studies" which do little to add to our general knowledge or understanding, much less provide a basis for future action. What makes this ...

The Forging Of The American Empire: From the Revolution to Vietnam: A History of American Imperialism

2 reviews
Sidney Lens

Pluto Press, 2003

Eye-opening
For all those folks who loved Howard Zinn's People's History of the United States, this is a great companion piece. Written toward the end of the Vietnam War, It is nothing short of the most comprehensive history of America's adventure's abroad ever written, starting with the conquest of the continent and moving on to the birth of the United States as a world power, and finishing off with the ...

Iraq: The Logic of Withdrawal

10 reviews
Anthony Arnove

New Press, 2006

Excellent case for bringing the troops home now
This outstanding book makes the case for the immediate withdrawal of all foreign troops from Iraq. This would meet the democratic demands of the Iraqi people, and also of the American and British peoples. In a September 2005 New York Times-CBS News poll, 52% supported the immediate withdrawal of US troops. Arnove sums up, "Every single argument the Bush administration made to justify the ...

Hijacking Catastrophe: 9/11, Fear And The Selling Of American Empire

5 reviews

Interlink, 2004

Chilling Look at the NeoCon Agenda
You might consider buying this one and giving it to everyone you can think of. It's preaching to the choir of course: most of us who see it understand that the NeoCon group's approach to foreign policy is horrifyingly similar to that of Gary Cooper in HIGH NOON (the quintessential go-it-alone guy.) It's amazing to watch this film and realize how long the propaganda has been coming at us, ...

La Otra historia de los Estados Unidos

2 reviews
Howard Zinn

Siete Cuentos, 2000

El turno de los perdedores y débiles...
Creo que llega un momento en la vida de muchos lectores amantes de la historia en que se dan cuenta de que saben muchísimo sobre la historia norteamericana. Ya conoces a todos los personajes más importantes, además de los eventos más significativos, los hitos más relevantes y los acontecimientos más rompedores desde 1492. Y luego, después de leer un montón de libros sobre los temas ...

SNCC, the new abolitionists

2 reviews
Howard Zinn

Beacon Press, 1964

A very informative history of SNCC's early years
The Officers and Members Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) were the foot soldiers of the Civil Rights Movement. They went into the dangerous areas of the South and attempted to register voters and challenge local segregation ordinances. Howard Zinn documents this in this social history of SNCC. He also gives information on Fannie Lou Hamer, John Lewis and other prominent SNCC ...

The Pentagon Papers: Volume Five: Critical Essays and an Index to Volumes One-Four (The Senator Gravel ...

1 review

Beacon Press, 1972

key to understanding the war
the starting point for analyzing the war that now consists of 50,000 names on a wall.

Postwar America, 1945-1971 (History of American Society)

1 review
Howard Zinn

MacMillan Publishing Company, 1973

From the Jacket:
"Sometimes to be silent is to lie." -Miguel de Unamuno. The book begins on 8/6/45, when in a burst of righteous brutality, America introduced the nuclear age at Hiroshima. ...this quietly, passionate, opinionated work go[es] on to examine... the decison to drop the bomb, the Truman Doctrine in Greece, America's worldwide imperialism, corporate power and the profit motive, the conflicts of race ...

Just War: by Howard Zinn

1 review
Howard Zinn

Charta, 2006

POWERFUL IDEAS COME IN SMALL PACKAGES
At only 64 pages, including photos of the event and the introduction by the war surgeon who wrote Green Parrots, this may seem a rather slender volume compared to his earlier book On War which mostly examined WWII and the Vietnam War. Nevertheless its timeliness and passion makes this essential reading for our day. Supplement with the US Catholic Bishops excellent definition of Just CAuses and ...

Law and Justice in Everyday Life: Featuring the Cool Justice Columns of Law Tribune Newspapers

2 reviews
Andy Thibault

TNT PUBLISHING, 2002

Andy isn't afraid of anything!
Andy traded me his book for my novel, "Forever Retro Blues" at the New England Book Festival last September. Over and over, Andy is asked, "aren't you afraid?" in reference to the people Andy is telling on. But he isn't afraid to tell the truth. And he's been there--on the inside where deals are done and our lives are changed--many times for the benefit of the deal maker and not the population ...

Readings from Voices of a People's History of the United States

1 review

Seven Stories Press, 2006

Brief but enormously valuable
People who know me, and my familiarity with the Washington, DC tourist market, know that I've argued that tourists, particularly young ones, in the nation's capital feel comfortable with "founding fathers" being Disney characters, and our history being a litany of one victory after another over savages, and foriegners not up to our standards. It's impossible for any honest person to not ...

Failure to Quit: Reflections of an Optimistic Historian

1 review
Howard Zinn

Common Courage Pr, 1993

Reflections of a People's Historian
Howard Zinn personifies the qualities that make a great historian; he is at once an activist and a chronicler, someone who knows that history is made out on the streets not behind the ivy covered walls of priviledge. This essays and interviews contained in this small book all stand as positive evidence that the common people--the dirty masses, as conservative historians would call them--are the ...

Green Parrots

1 review
Gino Strada, Howard Zinn

Charta, 2005

Beautiful Humanity Realized
"Green Parrots: A War Surgeon's Diary" is a remarkable book with frank reality coming from a true humanitiarian. Dr. Gino Strada has been been helping victims of war, 90% civilians, for over seventeen years. His experience has brought him to Afghanistan, Iraq, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Pakistan, Sudan, Cambodia and other countries affected by war. Dr. Strada cuts through the clutter revealing ...

La Guardia in Congress

1 review
Howard Zinn

W. W. Norton & Company, 1969

First Glance at Honesty in a Historian
Howard Zinn comes off one of two ways, and usually both at the same time. He is either a bleeding heart liberal/socialist, or a professor who loves the pursuit of knowledge, and moreover, cherishes the gift of giving it to his students. Of the two I slant more to the latter. In his first jaunt, during his Georgian days, he tackled the days of La Guardia in Congress, by using primary sources ...

Original Zinn

1 review

HarperCollins e-books, 2006

Conversing with Zinn
Howard Zinn not only makes history worth reading - he makes history. Historian, political activist, octogenarian and bestselling author of A PEOPLE'S HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES, he has been interviewed by Alternative Radio's David Barsamian (alternativeradio.org) a number of times over the past decade; and this latest publication is a collection of eight radio interviews between 2002 and 2005, ...

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