Selected testimonies to living historyspeeches, letters, poems, songsoffered 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.
Voices of a People's History of the United States, 10th Anniversary Edition
Zinn Howard
$23.84 - $44.20
- UPC:
- 9781609805920
- Maximum Purchase:
- 2 units
- Binding:
- Paperback
- Publication Date:
- 2014-11-11
- Release Date:
- 2014-11-11
- Author:
- Howard Zinn;Anthony Arnove
- Language:
- english
- Edition:
- 10th ed.