Failure to Quit: Reflections of an Optimistic Historian - Softcover

Zinn, Howard

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9781567510126: Failure to Quit: Reflections of an Optimistic Historian

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ISBN 10: 1567510124 ISBN 13: 9781567510126

Publisher: Common Courage Press,U.S., 1999

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Howard Zinn has illuminated American history and politics like none other. He wrote on the Civil Rights and anti-war movements and was one of America's best known and most beloved - or most hated - activists for both causes. In this timely reprint of Failure to Quit, Howard Zinn discusses a wide range of historical and political topics, from the role of the Supreme Court in US history to the nature of higher education today. Zinn's most accessible, most pertinent and most popular essays have been collected in a celebration of this great activist's legacy.

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Here, Howard Zinn discusses a wide range of historical and political topics, from the role of the Supreme Court in US history to the nature of contemporary higher education. Zinn argues that propaganda can be exposed and authority challenged, and that the struggle for justice can lead to important breakthroughs in the fight to create a better society.

About the Author:

Howard Zinn is professor emeritus at Boston University.

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