"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
It begins with his 1956 acceptance of a teaching post at Atlanta's Spelman College, a school for black women that would soon be caught up in the civil rights movement. Zinn, who had already been radicalized on the streets of Brooklyn as a teenager, got caught up along with his students (who included the future head of the Children's Defense Fund, Marian Wright Edelman, and author Alice Walker), and was kicked out in 1963 for "insubordination." He moved to Boston University, where he became an outspoken critic of the Vietnam War, and would prove a constant thorn in the side of university president John Silber throughout the 1970s and 1980s.
Zinn writes in plain language that brooks no nonsense when it speaks of moral urgency, but he isn't above a sense of humor. Noting that the FBI was watching him constantly during the war era, he wryly observes that, "I have grown to depend on them for accurate reports on my speeches." Individual scenes leap out at the reader: Zinn's horror when he realized, years after WWII, that he had dropped napalm bombs on German troops; a meeting in a college classroom with the sister and parents of one of the victims of the Kent State massacre; Selma, Alabama, police beating blacks attempting to register to vote while federal agents stand by and do nothing. Through it all, Zinn writes, "I see this as the central issue of our time: how to find a substitute for war in human ingenuity, imagination, courage, sacrifice, patience." --Ron Hogan
"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.
Shipping:
US$ 3.00
Within U.S.A.
Book Description Condition: new. Seller Inventory # newMercantile_0807071277
Book Description Condition: New. Buy with confidence! Book is in new, never-used condition 0.95. Seller Inventory # bk0807071277xvz189zvxnew
Book Description Condition: New. New! This book is in the same immaculate condition as when it was published 0.95. Seller Inventory # 353-0807071277-new
Book Description Paperback. Condition: new. New Copy. Customer Service Guaranteed. Seller Inventory # think0807071277
Book Description Condition: new. Seller Inventory # FrontCover0807071277
Book Description Paperback. Condition: new. New. Fast Shipping and good customer service. Seller Inventory # Holz_New_0807071277
Book Description Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 1st edition. 224 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.75 inches. In Stock. Seller Inventory # 0807071277
Book Description Paperback. Condition: new. Buy for Great customer experience. Seller Inventory # GoldenDragon0807071277
Book Description Paperback. Condition: new. New. Seller Inventory # Wizard0807071277
Book Description Paperback. Condition: new. Brand New Copy. Seller Inventory # BBB_new0807071277