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Voices of a People's History of the United States, 10th Anniversary Edition

Posted By: AlenMiler
Voices of a People's History of the United States, 10th Anniversary Edition

Voices of a People's History of the United States, 10th Anniversary Edition by Howard Zinn
English | Nov. 11, 2014 | ISBN: 1609805925, 0606358919 | 704 Pages | EPUB/MOBI/AZW3/PDF (Converted) | 7 MB

Selected testimonies to living history—speeches, letters, poems, songs—offered by the people who make history happen, but are often left out of history books: women, workers, nonwhites. Featuring introductions to the original texts by Howard Zinn.

New voices featured in this 10th Anniversary Edition include Chelsea Manning, speaking after her 35-year prison sentence); Naomi Klein, speaking from the Occupy Wall Street encampment in Liberty Square; a member of Dream Defenders, a youth organization that confronts systemic racial inequality; members of the Undocumented Youth movement, who occupied, marched, and demonstrated in support of the DREAM Act; a member of the Day Laborers movement; Chicago Teachers Union strikers; and several critics of the Obama administration, including Glenn Greenwald, on governmental secrecy.