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A Power Governments Cannot Suppress
Howard Zinn
City Lights Publishers
December 2006
On Sale: December 1, 2006
308 pages
ISBN: 0872864758
EAN: 9780872864757
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A Power Governments Cannot Suppress is Howard Zinn's
major new collection of essays on American history, class,
immigration, justice, and ordinary citizens who have made a
difference. Zinn opens the book with an essay titled "If
History is to be Creative," a reflection on the role and
responsibility of the engaged historian. Buzzing with
ideas, stories, and anecdotes spanning from the
Revolutionary War and the War with Mexico through to World
War II, Vietnam, 9/11, and the U.S. occupation of Iraq,
Zinn's view of American history is not a praise of famous
leaders, but those who rebelled against them in the name of
social justice. While writing extensively on current events
and the consequences of U.S. policy in Afghanistan and Iraq,
Zinn also dedicates entire chapters to troublemakers like
Henry David Thoreau, Eugene Debs, Philip Berrigan, Italian
immigrants Sacco & Vanzetti, and heralds not the
soldiers who fought for George Washington, but those who
deserted the Revolutionary Army because of intolerable
mistreatment from elitist commanding officers. For Zinn, the
voices and stories of ordinary working Americans,
immigrants, working people, and soldiers comprise the real
storyline of our history. Featuring essays penned over an
eight-year period, A Power Governments Cannot
Suppress is Howard Zinn's first writerly work in
several years, an invaluable post-9/11-era addition to the
themes that run through his bestselling classic, A
People's History Of the United States.
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