Voices of a People's History of the United States

By: Howard Zinn

Published October 5th 2004 by Seven Stories Press (first published September 1st 2004)

Category: Biography

Pages: 672 pages

ISBN: 9781583226476

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 PeopleÕs History is the long-awaited companion volume to the national bestseller. For Voices, Zinn and Arnove have selected testimonies to living historyÑspeeches, letters, poems, songsÑleft by the people who make history happen but who usually are left out of history booksÑwomen, 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 PeopleÕs History is a symphony of our nationÕs original voices, rich in ideas and actions, the embodiment of the power of civil disobedience and dissent wherein lies our nationÕs true spirit of defiance and resilience.