Voices Of A People's History Of The United States 10 Anniversary Edition

Name: Voices Of A People's History Of The United States
Author: Howard Zinn

Auteur: Howard Zinn

Taal: Engels

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Voices Of A People's History Of The United States

Auteur: Howard Zinn Anthony Arnove

Co-auteur: Anthony Arnove

Engels
Paperback
9781609805920
Druk: 0010
november 2014
704 pagina's

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Howard Zinn

"Howard Zinn (August 24, 1922 – January 27, 2010) was an American historian, playwright, and social activist. He was chair of the history and social sciences department at Spelman College, and a political science professor at Boston University. Zinn wrote more than twenty books, including his best-selling and influential A People's History of the United States. In 2007, he published a version of it for younger readers, A Young People′s History of the United States.

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Selected testimonies to living history&;speeches, letters, poems, songs&;offered by the people who make history happen, but are often left out of history books: women, workers, nonwhites. Featuring introductions to the original texts by Howard Zinn.

New voices featured in this 10th Anniversary Edition include Chelsea Manning, speaking after her 35-year prison sentence); Naomi Klein, speaking from the Occupy Wall Street encampment in Liberty Square; a member of Dream Defenders, a youth organization that confronts systemic racial inequality; members of the Undocumented Youth movement, who occupied, marched, and demonstrated in support of the DREAM Act; a member of the Day Laborers movement; Chicago Teachers Union strikers; and several critics of the Obama administration, including Glenn Greenwald, on governmental secrecy.