Fox Piven on Zinn

Readers of this volume are likely familiar with Zinn’s opus, "A People’s History of the United States." The essays in this volume are somewhat different. A People’s History documents the struggles of ordinary Americans for a measure of justice, but it does so at a remove of several decades, and even centuries, from the people and the events it describes. These Nation essays remind us that for nearly fifty years Zinn himself was deeply involved in the major twentieth-century struggles for social justice in the United States: the emancipatory movement of African-Americans for civil and political rights and the recurrent movements against America’s imperial wars, first in Vietnam and then in Iraq and Afghanistan...

More from Frances Fox Piven as she introduces Howard Zinn's posthumous collection, Some Truths Are Not Self-Evident. 


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