Failure to Quit: Reflections of an Optimistic Historian

by Howard Zinn

Overview

In this lively collection of essays, 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781608463039
Publisher:	Haymarket Books
Publication date:	09/24/2012
Edition description:	Second Edition
Pages:	192
Product dimensions:	5.20(w) x 8.10(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Howard Zinn: Howard Zinn (1922-2010) was a historian, playwright, and activist. He wrote the classic A People's History of the United States, “a brilliant and moving history of the American people from the point of view of those whose plight has been largely omitted from most histories.”

Table of Contents

	Preface to the South End Press Edition	ix
	Introduction	1
	"Who Controls the Past Controls the Future": Interview with David Barsamian	3
	The Optimism of Uncertainty	23
	Objections to Objectivity	29
	The Problem is Civil Obedience	43
	The Supreme Court is Not Supreme	53
	The Bill of Rights	59
	Second Thoughts on the First Amendment	69
	How Free is Higher Education?	89
	Just and Unjust Wars	99
	Terrorism Over Tripoli	117
	Columbus, the Indians, and Human Progress: 1492-1992	121
	"Je Ne Suis Pas un Marxiste"	145
	The Perils of Plato	151
	Failure to Quit	157