num_pages: 665
description: Here in their own words are Frederick Douglass, George Jackson, Chief Joseph, Martin Luther King Jr, Plough Jogger, Sacco &amp; Vanzetti, Patti Smith, Bruce Springsteen, Mark Twain &amp; Malcolm X, to name just a few of the hundreds appearing in Voices of a People’s History of the United States, edited by Howard Zinn &amp; Anthony Arnove. Paralleling the 24 chapters of Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States, Voices of a People’s History is the long-awaited companion volume to the national bestseller. For Voices, Zinn &amp; Arnove have selected testimonies to living history—speeches, letters, poems, songs—left by the people who make history happen, but who usually are underrepresented or misrepresented in history books: women, Native Americans, workers, blacks &amp; Latinos. Zinn has written short introductions to the texts, which themselves range in length from letters or poems of less than a page to entire speeches &amp; essays that run several pages &amp; longer. Voices of a People’s History is a symphony of our nation’s original voices, rich in ideas &amp; actions, an embodiment of the power of civil disobedience &amp; dissent, wherein lies our nation’s true spirit of defiance &amp; resilience. Beloved historian &amp; activist Howard Zinn is the author of the best-selling A People’s History of the United States &amp; many other books, including The Zinn Reader (Seven Stories Press 2000), Artists in the Time of War (Seven Stories, 2003) &amp; Terrorism &amp; War (Seven Stories 2002). Anthony Arnove is editor of Terrorism &amp; War by Howard Zinn &amp; Iraq Under Siege. An activist &amp; contributor to ZNet, his work appears in The Nation, The Financial Times &amp; Mother Jones. He lives in Brooklyn, NY.
language: English
title: Voices of a People's History of the United States
titlecomplete: Voices of a People's History of the United States
genres: Historical, American, History, Feminism, Education, Essays, American History, Social Justice, Politics, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 2091
publisher: Seven Stories Press (NYC)