Author: Howard Zinn
Translator: Gang-eun Yu
Publisher: Ihu
310 pages
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About This Book
A Personal History of Our Times
By any standards, Howard Zinn has led a remarkable life as teacher, writer, and
social activist, a life in which those three categories are viewed not as
compartmentalized tasks but as part of a unified identity. You Can't Be Neutral
on a Moving Train, a title taken from his advice to students about his take on
American history and current events, is a powerful testament to that life.
It begins with his 1956 acceptance of a teaching post at Atlanta's Spelman
College, a school for black women that would soon be caught up in the civil
rights movement. Zinn, who had already been radicalized on the streets of
Brooklyn as a teenager, got caught up along with his students (who included the
future head of the Children's Defense Fund, Marian Wright Edelman, and author
Alice Walker), and was kicked out in 1963 for "insubordination." He moved to
Boston University, where he became an outspoken critic of the Vietnam War, and
would prove a constant thorn in the side of university president John Silber
throughout the 1970s and 1980s.
Zinn writes in plain language that brooks no nonsense when it speaks of moral
urgency, but he isn't above a sense of humor. Noting that the FBI was watching
him constantly during the war era, he wryly observes that, "I have grown to
depend on them for accurate reports on my speeches." Individual scenes leap out
at the reader: Zinn's horror when he realized, years after WWII, that he had
dropped napalm bombs on German troops; a meeting in a college classroom with the
sister and parents of one of the victims of the Kent State massacre; Selma,
Alabama, police beating blacks attempting to register to vote while federal
agents stand by and do nothing. Through it all, Zinn writes, "I see this as the
central issue of our time: how to find a substitute for war in human ingenuity,
imagination, courage, sacrifice, patience." --Ron Hogan
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