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Voices of a People's History of the United States, 10th Anniversary Edition
  • Published: 15 November 2014
  • ISBN: 9781609805920
  • Imprint: Seven Stories Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 704
  • RRP: $65.00
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Voices of a People's History of the United States, 10th Anniversary Edition

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The 10th Anniversary Edition of a top-selling Zinn with new material

Voices of a People’s History of the United States compiles 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 receiving 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.
  • Published: 15 November 2014
  • ISBN: 9781609805920
  • Imprint: Seven Stories Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 704
  • RRP: $65.00
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About the authors

Anthony Arnove

ANTHONY ARNOVE is the editor of several books, including, with Howard Zinn, Voices of a People’s History of the United States and Terrorism and War. He wrote the introduction for the thirty-fifth anniversary edition of Zinn’s classic book A People’s History of the United States. Arnove cofounded the nonprofit education and arts organization Voices of a People’s History of the United States, wrote, directed, and produced the documentary The People Speak, and has directed stage and television versions of The People Speak in Dublin with Stephen Rea, in London with Colin Firth, and across the United States with various arts groups including Lincoln Center, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, and the Sundance Film Festival. He produced the Academy Award–nominated documentary Dirty Wars. Arnove is on the editorial boards of Haymarket Books and Tempestmag.org and is the director of Roam Agency, where he represents authors including Arundhati Roy and Noam Chomsky. He lives in Hopewell, New Jersey.
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Howard Zinn

HOWARD ZINN’s (1922–2010) great subject isn’t war, but peace. After his experience as a bombardier in World War II, he became convinced that there could be no such thing as a “just war,” as the vast majority of modern warfare’s victims are made up of innocent civilians. In his books, including A People’s History of the United States and its companion volume, Voices of a People’s History of the United States, Zinn affirms the power of the masses to influence major events. Through a lifetime of pointed scholarship and principled civil disobedience, his oeuvre continues to inform and inspire activists, scholars, and change-makers around the world.
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Praise for Voices of a People's History of the United States, 10th Anniversary Edition

  • "Is history then an art or a science and is it really possible to say what happened in the past without a bias? What is the nature of historiography in a post-modernist world? Should history abandon the search for objective truth about the past? Is it not important that it is time that history came to terms with its own processes of production? Voices of a People's History of the United States, a companion book to Zinn's previous bestseller A People's History of the United States, is a significant answer to these questions." --Chandigarh Sunday Times
  • "Voices should be on every bookshelf. [It presents] the rich tradition of struggle in the United States, from the resistance to the conquest of the Americas in the era of Columbus through the protests today of soldiers and their families against the brutal invasion and occupation of Iraq." --Arundhati Roy
  • "In Voices, Howard Zinn has given us our true story, the ongoing, not-so-secret narrative of race and class in America." --Russell Banks
  • "Gut-wrenching." --Jon Stewart

  • "Is history then an art or a science and is it really possible to say what happened in the past without a bias? What is the nature of historiography in a post-modernist world? Should history abandon the search for objective truth about the past? Is it not important that it is time that history came to terms with its own processes of production? Voices of a People's History of the United States, a companion book to Zinn's previous bestseller A People's History of the United States, is a significant answer to these questions." --Chandigarh Sunday Times
  • "Voices should be on every bookshelf. [It presents] the rich tradition of struggle in the United States, from the resistance to the conquest of the Americas in the era of Columbus through the protests today of soldiers and their families against the brutal invasion and occupation of Iraq." --Arundhati Roy
  • "In Voices, Howard Zinn has given us our true story, the ongoing, not-so-secret narrative of race and class in America." --Russell Banks
  • "Gut-wrenching." --Jon Stewart