5/23/2023 0 Comments The Old Neighborhood by Ray SuarezIn the nearly forty years since the first edition of A People’s History appeared, Zinn’s critics have tried to sandbag him. Suarez’s probing questions and Zinn’s humane (and often humorous) voice-along with his keen moral vision-shine through every one of these lively and thought-provoking conversations, showing that Zinn’s work is as relevant as ever. Longtime admirers and a new generation of readers alike will be fascinated to learn about Zinn’s thought processes, rationale, motivations, and approach to his now-iconic historical work. imperialism from the Indian Wars to the War on Terrorism, World Wars I and II, the Cold War, and the fight for equality and immigrant rights, all from an unapologetically radical standpoint. Viewed through the lens of Zinn’s own life as a soldier, historian, and activist and using his paradigm-shifting A People’s History of the United States as a point of departure, these conversations explore the American Revolution, the Civil War, the labor battles of the 19th and 20th centuries, U.S. Truth Has a Power of Its Own: Conversations About A People’s History is a collection of never-before-published conversations with Howard Zinn, conducted by the distinguished broadcast journalist Ray Suarez in 2007, that covers the course of American history from Columbus to the War on Terror from the perspective of ordinary people-including formerly enslaved, workers, immigrants, women, and Native Americans.
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