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Truth has a power of its own : conversations about A people's history

Title
Truth has a power of its own : conversations about A people's history / Howard Zinn ; with Ray Suarez.
Author
Zinn, Howard, 1922-2010
Publication
  • New York : The New Press, 2019.
  • ©2019

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Additional Authors
Suarez, Ray, 1957-
Description
223 pages; 20 cm
Summary
  • "Truth Has a Power of Its Own is an engrossing 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 slaves, workers, immigrants, women, and Native Americans. Viewed through the lens of Zinn's own life as a soldier, historian, and activist and using his paradigm-shifting 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 nineteenth and twentieth centuries, U.S. 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. 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."--Amazon.com.
  • First published in 1980, Zinn's A People's History of the United States presented the course of American history without the usual glorification of the country. In 2007 Zinn and Suarez conducted a series of conversations that covered the course of American history from Columbus to the War on Terror from the perspective of ordinary people-- including slaves, workers, immigrants, women, and Native Americans. In exploring Zinn's thought processes, rationale, motivations, and approach to his now-iconic historical work, Suarez's probing questions show that Zinn's work is as relevant as ever. -- adapted from jacket
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • History.
  • Interviews.
Note
  • Includes index.
  • "This book is based on the transcripts of conversations between Howard Zinn and Ray Suarez that took place in 2007."
Contents
Foreword / by Ray Suarez -- "Change the story": American beginnings -- "They rebelled": the long nineteenth century -- "They began to organize": the twentieth century and beyond.
Call Number
JFC 20-538
ISBN
  • 9781620975176
  • 1620975173
  • 9781620975183 (ebook) (canceled/invalid)
LCCN
2019012806
OCLC
1090707536
Author
Zinn, Howard, 1922-2010, author, interviewee.
Title
Truth has a power of its own : conversations about A people's history / Howard Zinn ; with Ray Suarez.
Publisher
New York : The New Press, 2019.
Copyright Date
©2019
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Added Author
Suarez, Ray, 1957- author, interviewer, writer of foreword.
Research Call Number
JFC 20-538
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