The People Speak
American Voices, Some Famous, Some Little Known
HarperCollins · Print & ebook · March 2, 2004
Collected here is a brief history of America told through stories applauding the enduring spirit of dissent.
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- Who it’s for
- American history takes shape through dissenting voices, with Zinn’s commentary bringing their words together.
- Themes
- American history, Dissent, Historical voices
- Genres
- Social History, Civil Rights, 20th-Century America
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Collected here is a brief history of America told through stories applauding the enduring spirit of dissent. To celebrate the millionth copy sold of his book A People's History of the United States, Howard Zinn drew on the words of Americans—some famous, some little known—across the range of American history.
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These words were read by a remarkable cast at an event held at the 92nd Street Y in New York City that included James Earl Jones, Alice Walker, Kurt Vonnegut, Alfre Woodard, Marisa Tomei, Danny Glover, Harris Yulin, Andre Gregory, and others. From that celebration, this book was born. Here in their own words, and interwoven with commentary by Zinn, are Columbus on the Arawaks; Plough Jogger, a farmer and participant in Shays' Rebellion; Harriet Hanson, a Lowell mill worker; Frederick Douglass; Mark Twain; Mother Jones; Emma Goldman; Helen Keller; Eugene V. Debs; Langston Hughes; Genova Johnson Dollinger on a sit-down strike at General Motors in Flint, Michigan; an interrogation from a 1953 HUAC hearing; Fannie Lou Hamer, a sharecropper and member of the Freedom Democratic Party; Malcolm X; and James Lawrence Harrington, a Gulf War resister, among others.
History in Many Voices
American history takes shape through dissenting voices, with Zinn’s commentary bringing their words together.
Come here for
- First-person words from famous and little-known Americans
- Dissent across generations, from Shays’ Rebellion to the Gulf War
Expect
- A brief history built from voices and Zinn’s interwoven commentary
- A wide-ranging cast of workers, activists, writers, and resisters
Where it sits
| Social History | 61% |
|---|---|
| Civil Rights | 30% |
| 20th-Century America | 19% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Studying History
- U.S. History
- 20th-Century America
- World History
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- The Americas History
- History Writing
- Social History
- Women's History
- Authors
- Howard Zinn
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Published
- March 2, 2004
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- American history · Dissent · Historical voices
- Reading lane
- Studying History