Howard Zinn is a historian and a playwright. He taught at Spelman College in Atlanta, Georgia, then at Boston University. He was active in the civil rights movement, and in the movement against the Vietnam war. He has written many books, his best known being A People's History of the United States. His most recent books include You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train (a memori), The Zinn Reader, The Future of History (interviews with David Barsamian) and Marx in Soho (a play).
Howard Zinn is one of the country’s most beloved and respected historians, the author of numerous books and plays, and a passionate activist for radical change. His classic, "A People’s History of the United States", has gone into more than 25 printings and is widely used in college and university classrooms. Whether his subject is war, race, politics, economic justice or history itself, Zinn speaks and writes with clarity and humor. His recent books include "You Can’t Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times," "The Zinn Reader" and the plays "Marx in Soho" and "Emma."
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Double CD
Title:
Howard Zinn "A People's History of the United States"
Leftist lecturer and people's historian Howard Zinn turns the tables on Tinseltown in his latest spoken-word release, recorded at the Taos Talking Film Festival a couple of years ago.
His thesis: That Hollywood deliberately portrays history from the perspective of the pro-military, pro-business, pro-government establishment.
His pitch: A slate of flicks from the working-class, average-joe viewpoint.
And on this hour-long disc, he outlines several possible storylines -- long-ignored tales of wartime rebellion, grassroots uprisings and labour struggles when the downtrodden got tired of being betrayed, sold out and oppressed by greedhead politicians and tycoons. Not surprisingly, it's somewhat Americacentric, but still makes for fascinating, thought-provoking listening.
