No other radical historian has reached so many hearts and minds as Howard Zinn. His A People's History of the United States has gone into more than twenty-five printings and sold over 400,000 copies. It is rare that a historian of the Left has managed to retain as much credibility while refusing to let his academic mantle change his beautiful writing style from being anything but direct, forthright, and accessible. Whether his subject is war, race, politics, economic justice, or history itself, each of his works serves as a reminder that to embrace one's subjectivity can mean embracing one's humanity, that heart and mind can speak with one voice.

Completely updated for a new decade, The Zinn Reader represents Howard Zinn through the depth and breadth of his concerns in one volume. The result is a monumental book, and one that will remain, alongside A People’s History of the United States and La otra historia, as an essential and necessary Zinn text.

Here, in Zinn’s inimitable prose:

• the hard fact of racism, in the South and in the North, at the start of the civil rights movement;

• Zinn on LaGuardia, the Ludlow Massacre, and "Growing Up Class-Conscious";

• questioning the very idea of a "just war";

• LBJ, the CIA, Nixon, and the bombing of Hiroshima;

• civil disobedience and the role of punishment in our society;

• on Upton Sinclair, Sacco and Vanzetti, and "Where to Look for a Communist";

• why historians don’t have to be “objective” and how the power of the academy is wasted;

• on anarchism, violence, and human nature, and “The Spirit of Rebellion.”