The Zinn Reader: Writings on Disobedience and DemocracyNo other radical historian has reached so many hearts and minds as Howard Zinn. His A People's History of the United States has gone into more than 25 printings and sold over 400,000 copies. It is rare that a historian of the Left has managed to retain as much credibility while refusing to let his academic mantle change his beautiful writing style from being anything but direct, forthright, and accessible. Whether his subject is war, race, politics, economic justice, or history itself, each of his works serves as a reminder that to embrace one's subjectivity can mean embracing one's humanity, that heart and mind can speak with one voice. The Zinn Reader represents the first time Zinn has attempted to present the depth, and breadth, of his concerns in one volume. The result is a big book, and a monumental book, one that will remain, alongside A People's History of the United States, as an essential and necessary Zinn text. |
Contents
The Southern Mystique from The American Scholar The Southern Mystique | 23 |
A Quiet Case of Social Change from The Crisis | 31 |
Finishing School for Pickets from The Nation | 40 |
Out of the Sitins from SNCC The New Abolitionists | 47 |
Kennedy The Reluctant Emancipator from The Nation | 67 |
Alabama Freedom Day in Selma from SNCC The New Abolitionists | 75 |
Mississippi Hattiesburg from SNCC The New Abolitionists | 91 |
The Selma to Montgomery March from The Nation | 108 |
The Bill of Rights from Failure to Quit | 412 |
Testifying at the Ellsberg Trial from The Real Paper | 420 |
Amazing Grace The Movement Wins in Camden from Liberation | 427 |
Punishment from Justice in Everyday Life | 433 |
Attica from The Saturday Review | 444 |
The Biggest Secret from the Boston Globe | 449 |
Where to Look for a Communist from Newsday Z Magazine | 452 |
Plato Fallen Idol from Z Magazine Failure to Quit | 457 |
Abolitionists Freedom Riders and the Tactics of Agitation from The AntiSlavery Vanguard The Columbia University Forum | 112 |
When Will the Long Feud End? from the Boston Globe | 139 |
Growing Up ClassConscious from You Cant Be Neutral on a Moving Train | 145 |
LaGuardia in the Jazz Age from The Politics of History | 163 |
The Wobbly Spirit from The Nation | 177 |
The Ludlow Massacre from The Politics of History | 183 |
The Limits of the New Deal from New Deal Thought | 203 |
Who Owns the Sun? from the Boston Globe | 220 |
The Secret Word from the Boston Globe | 223 |
Just and Unjust War from Declarations of Independence | 229 |
The Bombing of Royan from The Politics of History | 267 |
Vietnam A Matter of Perspective from Vietnam The Logic of Withdrawal | 281 |
Of Fish and Fishermen from Ramparts Vietnam The Logic of Withdrawal | 289 |
A Speech for LBJ from Vietnam The Logic of Withdrawal | 296 |
Dow Shalt Not Kill from The New South Student | 302 |
Aggressive Liberalism from The Politics of History | 309 |
The Curious Chronology of the Mayaguez Incident from the Boston Globe | 322 |
The CIA Rockefeller and the Boys in the Club from the Boston Globe | 325 |
Whom Will We Honor Memorial Day? from the Boston Globe | 328 |
What Did Richard Nixon Learn? from the Capital Times Madison Wisconsin | 331 |
Machiavellian Realism and US Foreign Policy Means and Ends from Declarations of Independence | 336 |
Terrorism Over Tripoli from Failure to Quit | 360 |
Law and Justice from Declarations of Independence | 367 |
The Problem is Civil Obedience from Violence The Crisis of American Confidence | 403 |
Upton Sinclair and Sacco Vanzetti Introduction to Boston | 462 |
Columbus and Western Civilization from Open Magazine Pamphlet Series | 479 |
The Uses of Scholarship from The Saturday Review The Politics of History | 499 |
Historian as Citizen from the New York Times Book Review | 509 |
Secrecy Archives and the Public Interest from The Midwestern Archivist | 516 |
Freedom Schools from The Nation | 529 |
The New History from the Boston Globe | 540 |
A University Should Not Be a Democracy from The Progessive | 543 |
The Marines and the University from the Boston Phoenix | 554 |
How Free Is Higher Education? From Failure to Quit | 567 |
Je Ne Suis Pas Marxiste from Z Magazine Failure to Quit | 574 |
Jack Londons The Iron Heel Introduction to The Iron Heel | 579 |
Discovering John Reed from the Boston Globe | 586 |
Violence and Human Nature from Declarations of Independence | 595 |
NonViolent Direct Action from the American Journal of OrthoPsychiatry | 612 |
The New Radicalism from The New Left | 620 |
The Spirit of Rebellion from the Boston Globe | 633 |
Beyond Voting from the Boston Globe | 636 |
The Optimism of Uncertainty from Failure to Quit | 639 |
Anarchism Introduction to Herbert Reads Anarchy Order | 644 |
Failure to Quit from Failure to Quit | 656 |
Suggestions for Further Reading | 663 |
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