Uncommon Sense from the Writings of Howard Zinn

This volume collects short quotations from across the works of Howard Zinn, the leftist American historian perhaps best known for his A People's History of the United States. The quotations generally read as aphorisms (e.g. "History is not inevitably useful. It can bind us or free us." and "At its worst, war has been mass slaughter without even the saving grace of a definable social goal.") that together provide a broad overview of Zinn's thinking on (citing the chapter titles): history, government, war and peace, class, racism and resistance, law and justice, Marxism and anarchism, and taking action. Annotation 穢2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)