Failure to quit : reflections of an optimistic historian.

Zinn, Howard.

ISBN 10: 0896086763 / ISBN 13: 9780896086760

Published by South End Press, 2002

About this Item

Cambridge , Mass . : South End Press, c2002. Reprint. Paperback. 164 p. ; 22 cm. Condition : as new copy. ISBN 9780896086760. Keywords : HISTORY,

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Failure to quit : reflections of an optimistic historian.
• Publisher: South End Press
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0896086763
• ISBN 13: 9780896086760
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: as new

About this title

Synopsis

A selection of Howard Zinn’s most popular and accessible essays on history and politics. In this lively collection of essays, now with a new afterword, Zinn discusses a wide range of historical and political topics, from the role of the Supreme Court in U.S. history to the nature of higher education today.

About the Author

Howard Zinn was Professor of Political Science at Boston University. He grew up in Brooklyn, one of four sons of a sometime waiter, window cleaner and pushcart peddler. He is A People's History of the United States in 1980. He received the Lannan Foundation Literary Award for Nonfiction and the Eugene V. Debs award for his writing and political activism.