Howard Zinn on A People's History of the United States - Part 2 (1995)

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Read Howard Zinn's FBI File: http://freegovreports.com/index.php/howard-zinn

Zinn wrote one of the earliest books calling for the U.S. withdrawal from its war in Vietnam. Vietnam: The Logic of Withdrawal was published by Beacon Press in 1967 based on his articles in Commonwealth, The Nation, and Ramparts.

In Noam Chomsky's view, The Logic of Withdrawal, was Zinn's most important book. "He was the first person to say—loudly, publicly, very persuasively—that this simply has to stop; we should get out, period, no conditions; we have no right to be there; it's an act of aggression; pull out. That was so surprising at the time—it became more commonplace later—that he couldn't even—there wasn't even a review of the book. In fact, he asked me if I would review it in Ramparts just so that people would know about the book."

In December 1969, radical historians tried unsuccessfully to persuade the American Historical Association to pass an anti-Vietnam War resolution. "A debacle unfolded as Harvard historian (and AHA president in 1968) John Fairbank literally wrestled the microphone from Zinn's hands." Correspondence by Fairbank, Zinn and other historians, published by the AHA in 1970, is online in what Fairbank called "our briefly-famous Struggle for the Mike."

In later years, Zinn was an adviser to the Disarm Education Fund.

An interview with Zinn is featured in the documentary film Sacco and Vanzetti (2007).

The Pearl Jam song "Down" from the album Lost Dogs (album) was inspired by the band's friendship with Zinn.[citation needed] In the March 13, 2010 episode of Saturday Night Live, lead singer Eddie Vedder's guitar sports a sticker reading "ZINN."

Actors Matt Damon and Ben Affleck who grew up near Zinn and were family friends, gave A People's History a plug in their Academy Award-winning screenplay for Good Will Hunting.

Marge Simpson is seen reading A People's History in The Simpsons episode 1911 That 90's Show, which flashes back to when Marge was in college.

Musician Bruce Springsteen's bleak album "Nebraska" was inspired in part by "A People's History."

A People's History was the basis for the 2007 documentary, Profit Motive and the Whispering Wind."

The NOFX song "Franco Un-American" references Howard Zinn.

In the System Of A Down song "Deer Dance", about Police Brutality against peaceful protest, Zinn is paraphrased in the line "We can't afford to be neutral on a moving train."

The People Speak, scheduled for release on DVD in February 2010, is a documentary movie inspired by the lives of ordinary people who fought back against oppressive conditions over the course of the history of the United States. The film includes performances by Zinn, Matt Damon, Morgan Freeman, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Eddie Vedder, Viggo Mortensen, Josh Brolin, Danny Glover, Marisa Tomei, Don Cheadle, and Sandra Oh.

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