Voices of a People's History of the United States, 10th Anniversary Edition
Voices of a People's History of the United States, 10th Anniversary Edition by Howard Zinn, Anthony Arnove
English | December 23, 2014 | ISBN: 1609805925, 1583229167, ASIN: B00KEOF6IS | True AZW3 | 704 pages | 1 MB
English | December 23, 2014 | ISBN: 1609805925, 1583229167, ASIN: B00KEOF6IS | True AZW3 | 704 pages | 1 MB
Selected testimonies to living history—speeches, letters, poems, songs—offered 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.