You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times: Amazon.de: Howard Zinn: Englische Bücher

Taschenbuch: 224 Seiten
Verlag: Beacon Press; Auflage: None. (5. September 2002)
Sprache: Englisch
ISBN-10: 0807071277
ISBN-13: 978-0807071274
Gr��e und/oder Gewicht: 15,3 x 1,4 x 22,8 cm

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Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 117.823 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)

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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 -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verf�gbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.

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The hundreds of thousands who enjoyed Zinn's People's History of the United States--a book that ignores presidents, generals, and vanguards--in college will find him as engaging, open-minded, informative, politically committed, and attentive to the exigencies of writing as ever. He still refuses to preach to the choir; he still takes seriously readers who wonder out loud, "If this country is such a terrible place, why don't you leave it?" But his uncharacteristic admiration of elites here startles. After all, he knew Julian Bond, Stokely Carmichael, John Lewis, Etta Baker, Dick Gregory, Jim Foreman, James Baldwin--he knew them all. The 18-year-olds he taught at Spellman all went on to become prominent civil rights lawyers or found the Children's Defense Fund or mother the mayor of Atlanta. They're successful. He's successful. Yet oppression in America is as brutal as ever, he assures us, when he is not recounting his part in the Good Fight that ameliorated it markedly. Aw hell, he's lived a good life. Who can blame him for a little inconsistency? Roland Wulbert -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verf�gbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.

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An excellent read. 13. M�rz 2000

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Howard Zinn's memoir serves as an outlet into the mind and backround of one of the most important historians of our time. Zinn knows how to tell a story but at the same time educate. I highly recommend this book for anyone who has read "A People's History of the United States", but, especially, for those who have merely heard of Zinn. I am sure this will motivate them to pursue his other efforts.

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Zinn is a Hero 25. April 2000

Von Mark Terra Thomas

This biographical look at Zinn's life is a great introduction to a man who is fully huamn. Zinn has the ability to cross political lines and show the human side to much of the "60's movement". Do not think that you will get an unbiased view however. Zinn is very up front with his views and holds that all knowledge is slanted in some way. I wish that all conservatives and liberals could read Zinn with an open mind......alas the world isn't perfect.

an informative easy read 2. M�rz 2000

Von Edward Bosnar

Zinn's casual biography is a really pleasant read, probably because he doesn't attempt to write an exhaustive account of his illustrious life. Rather, he spends more time describing the events he witnessed and, more importantly, the people he met. "You Can't Be Neutral" can be read simply for the joy of it or to get some more background information on one of America's premier social historians, but it can also be used as a supplementary source for the civil rights movement and even the effects of World War II on war veterans. Zinn's description of his experiences in the South just before and during the Civil Rights movement are fascinating, they really give the reader a feel for the frustration felt by the movement's protagonists and the atmosphere of hope they created. I highly recommend to this book to anyone.