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Failure to Quit: Reflections of an Optimistic Historian »
Authors: Howard Zinn
ISBN-13: 9780896086760, ISBN-10: 0896086763
Format: Paperback
Publisher: South End Press
Date Published: September 2002
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Author Biography: Howard Zinn
Book Synopsis
A selection of Howard Zinn's most popular and accessible essays on history and politics.
Table of Contents
| Preface to the South End Press Edition | ||
| Introduction | 1 | |
| "Who Controls the Past Controls the Future": Interview with David Barsamian | 3 | |
| The Optimism of Uncertainty | 23 | |
| Objections to Objectivity | 29 | |
| The Problem is Civil Obedience | 43 | |
| The Supreme Court is Not Supreme | 53 | |
| The Bill of Rights | 59 | |
| Second Thoughts on the First Amendment | 69 | |
| How Free is Higher Education? | 89 | |
| Just and Unjust Wars | 99 | |
| Terrorism Over Tripoli | 117 | |
| Columbus, the Indians, and Human Progress: 1492-1992 | 121 | |
| "Je Ne Suis Pas un Marxiste" | 145 | |
| The Perils of Plato | 151 | |
| Failure to Quit | 157 |
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