Howard Zinn, Author South End Press $23 (88p) ISBN 978-0-89608-594-7
Taking his inspiration from Karl Marx's stay in London's Soho district after his exile from the Continent, Zinn's (A People's History of the United States) one-man play reads like a first-person memoir narrated by a distinctive voice. Laid out on...
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Howard Zinn, Author City Lights Books $16.95 (293p) ISBN 978-0-87286-475-7
Prolific author, WWII veteran and outspoken history/political science professor Zinn collects here almost three dozen brief, passionate essays that follow in the tradition of his landmark work, A People's History of the United States, taking up the...
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Howard Zinn, Author Harper Perennial $18.95 (752p) ISBN 978-0-06-052837-9
According to this classic of revisionist American history, narratives of national unity and progress are a smoke screen disguising the ceaseless conflict between elites and the masses whom they oppress and exploit. Historian Zinn sides with the...
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Howard Zinn, Author HarperCollins Publishers $25 (341p) ISBN 978-0-06-016473-7
In these informal, challenging essays that link the personal to the political, Zinn ( A People's History of the United States ) aims to shake complacency, to challenge what he calls ``American orthodoxies'' or received opinions about history and...
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Howard Zinn, Author Beacon Press (MA) $22 (214p) ISBN 978-0-8070-7058-1
Noted left-wing historian Zinn ( A People's History of the United States ) believes that activism and education are inextricable, and his memoir illuminates a well-engaged life. Teaching at Atlanta's Spelman College in the early days of the civil...
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Howard Zinn. City Lights, $14.95 trade paper (184p) ISBN 978-0-87286-555-6
This posthumous collection of Zinn’s passionate, iconoclastic, and wryly humorous articles from the Progressive magazine spans 30 years—from 1980 to 2010—though most are of 21st-century vintage. Zinn argues repeatedly for an alternative to war,...
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Howard Zinn, Author, Paul Buhle, Author, Mike Konopacki, Author Metropolitan Books $30 (273p) ISBN 978-0-8050-7779-7
This \x93graphic adaptation\x94 of Howard Zinn's A People's History of American Empire is, on almost every level, a disappointment. Its basic concept seems to be a Cliff's Notes version of the original, implying that the comics format makes...
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Howard Zinn, Author, Dana Frank, Joint Author, Robin D. G. Kelley, Joint Author . Beacon $24 (174p) ISBN 978-0-8070-5012-5
Zinn (A People's History of the United States), Frank (Purchasing Power) and Kelley (Yo' Mama's Disfunktional!) each write compellingly about a significant early 20th-century strike, including historical background and reflections on...
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Howard Zinn, Author, David Barsamian, With, Arundhati Roy, Foreword by , Harper Perennial $13.95 (167p) ISBN 978-0-06-084425-7
Zinn's newest book (of more than 20 published) collects eight radio interviews conducted with the Boston University history professor emeritus between August 2002 and February 2005 by Barsamian, founder of Alternative Radio, in Boulder, Colo....
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