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The Truth of
America's Cruel History

From the Common Courage Press:

"Zinn has written a brilliant and moving history of the American people from the point of view of those who have been exploited politically and economically and whose plight has been largely omitted from most histories... the book is an excellent antidote to establishment history.

"Seldom have quotations been so effectively used; the stories of blacks, women, Indians, and poor laborers of all nationalities are told in their own words. While the book is precise enough to please specialists, it should satisfy any adult reader."

— Library Journal

About the Author

Howard Zinn is a playwright and one of the most famous historians in the country, active in many civil rights and peace campaigns.   hzinn@bu.edu

Zinn grew up in the immigrant slums of Brooklyn where he worked in shipyards in his late teens. He saw combat duty as an air force bombardier in World War II. Afterward he received his doctorate in history from Columbia University and was a postdoctoral Fellow in East Asian Studies at Harvard University.

His first book, La Guardia in Congress, was an Albert Beveridge Prize winner. He is the author of numerous books, including his epic masterpiece, A People's History of the United States. A professor emeritus of political science at Boston University, Zinn lives with his wife Roslyn in the Boston area, near to their children and grandchildren.

Books by Howard Zinn

• LaGuardia in Congress
  1959
  
  
• The Southern Mystique
  1964
  
  
• SNCC: The New Abolitionists
  1964
  
  
• New Deal Thought (editor)
  1965
  
  
• Vietnam: The logic of Withdrawal
  1967
  
  
• Disobedience and Democracy
  1968
  
  
• The Politics of History
  1970
  
  
• The Pentagon Papers: Critical Essays (editor, with Noam Chomsky)
  1972
  
  
• Postwar America
  1973
  
  
• Justice in Everyday Life (editor)
  1974
  
  
• A People's History of the United States: 1492 - Present
  1980, 2000
  
  
• Declarations of Independence: Cross-Examining American Ideology
  1991
  
  
• Failure to Quit: Reflections of an Optimistic Historian
  1993
  
  
• You Can't Be Neutral On A Moving Train (autobiography)
  1994
  
  
• The Zinn Reader: Writings on Disobedience and Democracy
  1997
  
  
• Marx in Soho: A Play on History
  1999
  
  
• The Future of History: Interviews With David Barsamian
  1999
  
  
• Howard Zinn on War
  2001
  
  
• Howard Zinn on History
  2001

Related sites

Howard Zinn Online
http://www.geocities.com/howardzinnfans/

Howard Zinn Page
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Zinn/HZinn_page.html

Delusion 2000
by Howard Zinn
http://www.progressive.org/zinn0300.htm

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