A handsome box set collection of the four previously released AK Audio Howard Zinn CDs, together with a deluxe booklet featuring a previously unpublished interview with Professor Zinn, as well as tributes and commentary from his friends, colleagues and comrades. Ranging over six discs, America''s best-loved historian ruminates and illuminates in his downbeat, witty and avuncular style, over our forgotten social, economic and political history, the struggles waged by the dispossessed, ignored, vilified and just plain regular folks. With an affordable price, this is the perfect audio companion to Zinn''s continuing excavation of history from below and what it teaches us about today and tomorrow. History is what''s happening, and this is how it sounds.
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Author Bio| Howard Zinn | | The author of the groundbreaking popular study A PEOPLE'S HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES, first published in 1980, Howard Zinn was a professor at Spelman College and later at Boston University. In the 1960s, Zinn was an early foe of the Vietnam war and a member of The Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). His approach to history includes those often excluded and disenfranchised, and his books uses examples from people's lives, especially the working class. His HISTORY has been a much-assigned text in courses at many levels, and a collection of his writings was published as THE HOWARD ZINN READER in 1997. Zinn appears in a documentary film about his life, YOU CAN'T BE NEUTRAL ON A MOVING TRAIN. |
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