Some Truths Are Not Self-Evident: Essays in The Nation on Civil Rights, Vietnam, and “The War on Terror”

As Frances Fox Piven writes in the introduction, “These Nation essays remind us that for nearly fifty years Zinn himself was deeply involved in the major twentieth-century struggles for social justice in the United States.”

The book also includes later Zinn articles on George W. Bush’s wars—on terror, in Iraq, against the poor—as well as a selection of Nation articles about Zinn, concluding with Eric Foner’s 2010 obituary for the historian who “was not afraid to speak out about the difference between right and wrong.” [Publisher’s description.]

Table of Contents

HOWARD ZINN IN THE NATION

• • Introduction • Frances Fox Piven • p. 7
  • Finishing School for Pickets • August 6, 1960 • p. 15
  • Kennedy: The Reluctant Emancipator • December 1, 1962 • p. 25
  • Incident in Hattiesburg • May 18, 1964 • p. 35
  • The Wobbly Spirit (review) • April 5, 1965 • p. 47
  • The South Revisited • September 20, 1965 • p. 57
  • Vietnam: Setting the Moral Equation • January 17, 1966 • p. 81
  • Emancipation From Dogma:  The Old Left and the New • April 4, 1966 • p. 103
  • Three Prisoners: The Petty Route Home • April 1 , 1968 • p. 123
  • A People’s Constitution: Some Truths Are Not Self-Evident • August 1, 1987 • p. 145
  • The Others • February 11, 2002 • p. 151
  • How to Get Out of lraq •  May 24, 2004 • p. 163
  • Beyond the New Deal • April 7, 2008 • p. 167
  • A Big Government Bailout • October 27, 2008 • p. 171

THE NATION ON HOWARD ZINN

• • Civil Disobedience: Moral or Not? (review) Carl Cohen, December 2, 1968 • p. 179
  • The People? Yes. (review) • Bruce Kuklick, May 24, 1980 • p. 191
  • He Shall Not Be Moved (review) • Paul Buhle, November 21, 1994 • p. 197
  • Red Fox? The Unlikely Union of Murdoch and Zinn • Tom Gogola, April 5, 1999 • p. 205
  • Zinn’s Critical History (obituary) • Eric Foner, February 22, 2010 • p. 211

Published by Published by The Nation Company, 2014.