Sunday, April 6, 2008

Voices of A People's History - 07

http://books.google.com/books?id=P8V7J5qm5-YC&dq=Howard+Zinn&hl=en&prev=http://www.google.com/search?q=Howard+Zinn&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&sa=X&oi=print&ct=result&cd=1&cad=author-navigational

The book is freely available online if you want it.

I had the pleasure of attending a book signing and seeing Zinn in person.

Boston, for all it irritants and warts, affords many golden opportunities to delight the autodidact.

Several I know accepted, and thoughtlessly regurgitated, the media's sentence fragments on this important work.

I came to view those of that ilk much like those who died in the wilderness in the days of the Exodus from Egypt.

That was a liberating realization.

The book was edifying.

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