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Paralleling the twenty-four chapters of Zinn's A People's History of the United States, Voices of a People’s History is the long-awaited companion volume to the national bestseller. For Voices, Zinn and Arnove have selected testimonies to living history—speeches, letters, poems, songs—left by the people who make history happen but who usually are left out of history books—women, 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 People’s History is a symphony of our nation’s original voices, rich in ideas and actions, the embodiment of the power of civil disobedience and dissent wherein lies our nation’s true spirit of defiance and resilience.
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Howard Zinn, who believes that the traditional teaching of American history is "badly twisted . . . by its submersion of non-white people," has published an impressive companion volume to his A People's History of the United States. Matching his original book chapter for chapter, Zinn presents a compendium of excerpts from the voices he feels have been smothered beneath pages of history texts focused on generals and wars. His excerpts do not merely echo those whom he cited in his first volume. Zinn enlarges his choice of primary sources to extend the material of his earlier book, citing at fuller length those he cited before and then adding rich and longer excerpts from other pertinent works. Zinn's selections do, of course, reflect his political beliefs. His brief introductions to each chapter and his briefer comments before each "voice" from history leave no doubt where he stands in a book he dedicates "To the rebel voices of the coming generation." His work remains, however, a rich source of material often unavailable to the student of American history. KLIATT Codes: SA*—Exceptional book, recommended for senior high school students, advanced students, and adults. 2004, Seven Stories Press, 665p. bibliog. index., Ages 15 to adult.—Patricia Moore
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