Voices of a People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn & Anthony Arnove
Amazon Description:
“Here in their own words are Frederick
Douglass, George Jackson, Chief Joseph, Martin Luther King Jr., Plough Jogger,
Sacco and Vanzetti, Patti Smith, Bruce Springsteen, Mark Twain, and Malcolm X,
to name just a few of the hundreds of voices that appear in Voices of a
People's History of the United States, edited by Howard Zinn and Anthony
Arnove. Paralleling the twenty-four 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 and Arnove have selected
testimonies to living history—speeches, letters, poems, songs—left by the
people who make history happen but who usually are left out of history
books—women, workers, nonwhites. Zinn has written short introductions to the texts,
which range in length from letters or poems of less than a page to entire
speeches and essays that run several pages. Voices of a People’s History is a
symphony of our nation’s original voices, rich in ideas and actions, the
embodiment of the power of civil disobedience and dissent wherein lies our
nation’s true spirit of defiance and resilience.”
My Thoughts:
A must read for the passionate
history lover. I have gone back to this book many times and will continue to go back.
Masterful!
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