You Cant Be Neutral on a Moving Trai..., Howard Zinn
You Cant Be Neutral on a Moving Trai..., Howard Zinn
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You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train
A Personal History of Our Times

Author: Howard Zinn

Narrator: David Strathairn

Unabridged: 8 hr

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 02/28/2017

Synopsis

Howard Zinn, author of A People's History of the United States, tells his personal stories about more than thirty years of fighting for social change, from teaching at Spelman College to recent protests against war.

A former bombardier in World War II, Zinn emerged in the civil rights movement as a powerful voice for justice. Although he's a fierce critic, he gives us reason to hope that by learning from history and engaging politically, we can make a difference in the world.

About Howard Zinn

Howard Zinn (1922-2010) was a historian, playwright, and activist. He wrote the classic A People's History of the United States. The book, which has sold more than two million copies, has been featured on The Sopranos and Simpsons, and in the film Good Will Hunting. In 2009, the History Channel aired The People Speak, an acclaimed documentary co-directed by Zinn, based on A People's History and a companion volume, Voices of a People's History of the United States.
Zinn grew up in Brooklyn in a working-class, immigrant household. At 18 he became a shipyard worker and then flew bomber missions during World War II. These experiences helped shape his opposition to war and passion for history. After attending college under the GI Bill and earning a PhD in history from Columbia, he taught at Spelman, where he became active in the civil rights movement. After being fired by Spelman for his support for student protesters, Zinn became a professor of political science at Boston University, were he taught until his retirement in 1988.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Nomy on December 23, 2007

this was the book that politicized my mom when she was in her forties. i had been a rebellious, critical kid for many years, and she had been a busy, tired middle school teacher and mom. she read this book and got all excited, she made my brother, who was in high school, read it too and discuss it w......more

Goodreads review by Kevin on January 26, 2021

Here I go again, under-rating Zinn… Dear Future self, So, you have come back full of regret and are now proceeding to upgrade your original rating for yet another Zinn book. How predictable. Here were your original reasons why you chose to under-rate Zinn yet again: 1) When I first came across Zinn, I......more

Goodreads review by Antonis on January 05, 2024

I had never thought I'd love an autobiographical non-fiction book, but half the time I was reading this one I was crying or laughing (or both), moved by the many inspiring "little acts" of courage and civil disobedience. It is a true injection of optimism.......more

Goodreads review by shaw on October 29, 2007

Before I really knew anything about Zinn other than that he wrote A People's History, he and Noam Chomsky always blurred in my ignorant mind -- anti-war, activists, teachers, white men from the Northeast. It was easy for me to forget how Zinn worked alongside the likes of Ella Baker, James Baldwin,......more

Goodreads review by John on July 03, 2012

It's been years since I had read this book and it is shameful that one forgets any of it. This is the book that probably captures the essence of Howard Zinn as my intellectual hero. More than an academic, Howard Zinn was the type of person that never forgot the struggle of growing up poor. He never......more

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