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Voices of a People’s History of the United States, Second Edition
Howard Zinn and Anthony Arnove
Updated and expanded in honor of the upcoming release of the History Channel’s documentary The People Speak, Voices of a People’s History brings together a symphony of our nation’s original voices, rich in ideas and actions, the embodiment of the power of civil disobedience and dissent wherein lies our nation’s true spirit of defiance and resilience.
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Racing While Black
Leonard T. Miller and Andrew Simon
Starting a NASCAR team is hard work. Starting a NASCAR team as an African American is even harder. Follow Leonard T. Miller and ESPN The Magazine writer Andrew Simon as they tell the story of the fight to open up one of the last nearly all-white sports in America.
Special Items
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The Old Garden: First Five Chapters
“Undoubtedly the most powerful voice of the novel in East Asia.” — Kenzaburo Oe on Hwang Sok-Yong, author of The Old Garden
A serialization of the first five chapters of Hwang Sok-yong’s The Old Garden ran on this site from September 1 to November 3, 2009. Click the book cover to read it from the beginning.
Seven Stories Spotlight 
RIP Howard Zinn 1922-2010
“I’m thinking that as much as anything else, people watching [Zinn's film, The People Speak] were sizing up Zinn himself, a very down to earth, soft-spoken historian who came from humble origins and who was saying things that made sense. They were saying to themselves, “If he can say those things, then I can say those things too. Out loud. And what I say will make a difference” — this of course being the opposite message from the one people usually hear. The film put Zinn front and center as narrator. Zinn himself was setting an example — not only of activist scholarship, but of citizenship plain and simple, and of humanity — an example that anyone is free to follow.” — Dan Simon
Alice Walker | Bob Herbert at the New York Times | Zinn Education Project | VOICES
In the News 
Linh Dinh poems at Bookslut
February 5, 2010
Bookslut has just reprinted three poems from Some Kind of Cheese Orgy, the most recent poetry collection from Linh Dinh, author of Blood and Soap, Fake House, and the forthcoming Love Like Hate. Check them out here.
I Owe You These Lines
Welcome, friend, I give you
My very best friend, to eat.
I did not kill my best friend, friend,
Although I did rejoice at his death,
As I would rejoice at your death,
As you would, no doubt, fall over
Laughing at news of my demise.
With the sharpest or dullest knife,
Whatever’s handy, I’ll point the tip
Of my blade at your jugular vein,
Observe your jiggling jaw, ask
About your questionable taste
In wine, painting and poetry.
Fall is my favorite season, I somberly reflect,
As your blood pools in the sharp morning air,
As I incise a clean cross on your funny belly,
As I gut you, glancing over my thin shoulders. —Linh Dinh
10,000 Dresses reviewed at Rainbow Rumpus
February 5, 2010
Rainbow Rumpus — “the magazine for kids with LGBT parents” — has written not one, but two excellent reviews of Marcus Ewert and Rex Ray’s 10,000 Dresses: one for kids, and one for parents. Check them out, and congratulations yet again to Marcus and Rex!
Multimedia 
David Swanson at Brave New Conversations
Check out this teaser from Daybreak author David Swanson’s long interview and discussion at Brave New Conversations. To see the whole thing, sign up at BNC here.
Web Spotlight
Straight Up with Jan Herman
Jan Herman’s Straight Up: a blog about books, about arts, about the media, and about the culture at large, and one that isn’t afraid to have a human voice. Herman waxes rhapsodic on Nelson Algren, finds the hidden parallels between William Burroughs and the blockbuster “Watchmen” film, and in general separates what’s true from what’s bullshit. For all their claim to individuality, blogs are often anything but individual; Jan Herman’s is an exception.
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Voices of a People's History of the United States
2nd ed.
In honor of the premiere of the film The People Speak, an updated and expanded second edition of Howard Zinn and Anthony Arnove's national bestseller.
