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Never before published, an extraordinarily inspiring and radical conversation between Howard Zinn and PBS/NPR journalist Ray Suarez, wherein American history is turned upside downpublished to coincide with the tenth anniversary of Zinn''s death
Truth Has a Power of Its Own is an engrossing collection of never-before-published conversations with Howard Zinn, conducted by the distinguished broadcast journalist Ray Suarez in 2007, that covers the course of American history from Columbus to the War on Terror from the perspective of ordinary peopleincluding slaves, workers, immigrants, women, and Native Americans.
Viewed through the lens of Zinn''s own life as a soldier, historian, and activist and using his paradigm-shifting People''s History of the United States as a point of departure, these conversations explore the American Revolution, the Civil War, the labor battles of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, U.S. imperialism from the
