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The Checkbook and the Cruise Missile
Arundhati Roy, David Barsamian
David Barsamian interviews Arundhati Roy. South End Press, 2004; 180 pages. Out of Print. Collector’s item. A skillful interviewer can reveal aspects of a writer’s voice in simple yet telling ways. As a novelist, Arundhati Roy is known for her lush language and intricate structure. As a political essayist, her prose is searching and fierce. […]
Howard Zinn on Race
Howard Zinn
Howard Zinn on Race is Zinn’s choice of the shorter writings and speeches that best reflect his views on America’s most taboo topic. As chairman of the history department at all-black women’s Spelman College, Zinn was an outspoken supporter of student activists in the nascent civil rights movement. In “The Southern Mystique,” he tells of how […]
Howard Zinn On War
Howard Zinn
Second edition. Introduction by Marilyn B. Young. pp. 272. Here we see Zinn’s perspective as a World War II veteran and peace activist who lived through the most devastating wars of the twentieth century and questioned every one of them with his combination of integrity and historical acumen.
A Young People’s History of the United States
Howard Zinn
In paperback with illustrations, this is the young adult edition of Howard Zinn’s classic telling of American history. A Young People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn with Rebecca Stefoff brings to U.S. history the viewpoints of workers, people who are enslaved, immigrants, women, Native Americans, and others whose stories, and their impact, are rarely included […]
Howard Zinn On History
Howard Zinn
Second edition. Introduction by Staughton Lynd. pp. 288. Howard Zinn On History brings together twenty-seven short writings on activism, electoral politics, the Holocaust, Marxism, the Iraq War, and the role of the historian, as well as portraits of Eugene Debs, John Reed, and Jack London, effectively showing how Zinn’s approach to history evolved over nearly […]
The Democracy Fix
Caroline Fredrickson
In The Democracy Fix, the president of the American Constitution Society argues for progressives to focus on winning by learning from the Right that policy follows power, not the other way around. Caroline Fredrickson points to judicial elections, state power, election law and other policy areas that change the rules of the game. Fredrickson shows […]
Global Discontents: Conversations on the Rising Threats to Democracy
Noam Chomsky, David Barsamian
Global Discontents is a compelling new set of interviews with Noam Chomsky, who identifies the “dry kindling” of discontent around the world that could soon catch fire. In wide-ranging interviews with David Barsamian, his longtime interlocutor, Noam Chomsky asks us to consider “the world we are leaving to our grandchildren”: one imperiled by the escalation […]
The Future of History
Howard Zinn, David Barsamian
David Barsamian interviews Howard Zinn. Common Courage Press, 1999; 192 pages. Who will control the past – and the future? In these panoramic interviews (1989-1998), Howard Zinn makes sense of events as only he can, proving not only that history isn’t dead, but that with luck, it may just be getting going. An enjoyable and […]
Original Zinn: Conversations on History and Politics
Howard Zinn, David Barsamian
David Barsamian interviews Howard Zinn. Foreword by Arundhati Roy. Harper Perennial, 2006; 167 pages. A collection of conversations with David Barsamian touching on such diverse topics as the American war machine, civil disobedience, the importance of memory and remembering history and the role of artists – from Langston Hughes to Dalton Trumbo to Bob Dylan- […]
An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortíz
This class-savvy peoples’ history explores the silences haunting our national narrative. Like her friend and colleague, historian Howard Zinn, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz is a great rememberer and researcher. This brilliant bottom-up people’s history places settler-colonialism and genocide exactly where they belong: as foundational to the existence of the U.S. Told from the perspective of Indigenous peoples and […]
How to Read a Protest: The Art of Organizing and Resistance
L.A. Kauffman
By L.A. Kauffman 152 pages When millions of people took to the streets for the 2017 Women’s Marches, there was an unmistakable air of uprising, a sense that these marches were launching a powerful new movement to resist a dangerous presidency. But the work that protests do often can’t be seen in the moment. It […]
On Power and Ideology: The Managua Lectures
Noam Chomsky
One of Noam Chomsky’s most accessible books, On Power and Ideology is a product of his 1986 visit to Managua, Nicaragua, for a lecture series at Unversidad Centroamericana. Delivered at the height of U.S. involvement in the Nicaraguan civil war, this succinct series of lectures lays out the parameters of Noam Chomsky’s foreign policy analysis. The book […]

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